Richard Butler (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler KCB KCMG (1870–1935) was a British Army General during World War I.

Military career

Educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,^[1] Butler was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment in 1890.^[2]

He served in the Second Boer War and then became a Brigade Major at Aldershot in 1906.^[2] He also served in World War I initially as Commanding Officer of 2nd Bn Lancashire Fusiliers^[1] and then as Commander of 3rd Infantry Brigade^[1] before becoming a Major-General on the General Staff of 1st Army from 1915.^[2] He was Deputy Chief of the General Staff on the Western Front from 1916 and then became General Officer Commanding III Corps in February 1918.^[3]

After the War he was General Officer Commanding 2nd Division from 1919 to 1923; he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1924 and retired in 1929.^[2]

He lived at Shrewsbury in Shropshire.^[1]

Family

In 1894 he married Helen Frances Battiscombe and together they went on to have one son and one daughter.^[1]

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