Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal B. A. Butcher, Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (87233 Cpl B. A. Butcher. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (87233. Cpl. B. A. Butcher. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (87233. Cpl. B. A. Butcher. R.A.) mounted as worn in the wrong order, good very fine and better (4)
£340-380

M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919.

Bertram Albert Butcher was born in 1877, in Bridport, Dorset, and attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Richmond, Surrey, on 25 August 1914. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 June 1915, being promoted Corporal and posted to 65th Brigade Ammunition Column prior to embarkation on 29 May 1915. On reorganisation in May 1916, he served for short periods with 12th Divisional Ammunition Column and D Battery, 62nd Brigade, before being posted to V 12 Trench Mortar Battery in August 1916. On 18 January 1918, he was severely wounded in the right hand and head by shell fire and removed to 38th Field Ambulance and admitted to 2nd Canadian Stationary Hospital at Outreau, along with 24 other admissions that day. On 24 January 1918, he was transferred to 72nd General Hospital, Trouvelle. On recovery, he was posted to Y 12 Trench Mortar Battery on 8 April 1918 and was awarded the M.M. for his bravery with this unit. He transferred to the Army Reserve in March 1919 and returned to his family home in Bridport. After the war, he set up in dental practice as a Dental Surgeon in Bridport. He later moved the practice to Fareham, Hampshire, where he also became an A.R.P. Warden. He died at St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth in 1963.