Awards & Winners

William Boynton Butler

Date of Birth 20-November-1894
Place of Birth Armley
(West Yorkshire)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
William Boynton Butler VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Butler was 22 years old, and a private in the 17th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment, British Army, attached to 106th TM. Battery during the First World War when the following deed took place on 6 August 1917 east of Lempire, France for which he was awarded the VC. The Stokes gun was a 3-inch trench mortar invented by Sir Wilfred Stokes.

Awards by William Boynton Butler

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1917


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 6th August, 1917 as Private of the Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) during the First World War.)