Major General S S Butler CB CMG DSO

Interesting ts account (203pp, on microfilm) recording his career as a regular officer with the British Army, November 1899 - June 1941, including: his service with the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (18th Brigade, 6th Division) in South Africa, November 1899 - summer 1901, when he was invalided with malaria and typhoid, having participated in the advance to Pretoria and subsequent operations in the Komati Valley; in command of the Intelligence Section of HQ ANZAC Corps and then GHQ in Gallipoli, May 1915 - January 1916, when Helles was evacuated, describing the conditions and his admiration for Field Marshal Lord Birdwood; as GS02 (Intelligence), ANZAC Corps, in France and Belgium, 1916 - early 1918, taking part in the offensives on the Somme in 1916 and at Third Ypres in 1917; as GS01 (Intelligence), Fifth Army, 1918, commenting on the controversial Army Commander, General Sir Hubert Gough; Deputy Chief of Intelligence at GHQ, March 1918 - 1919, commenting on the Branch's organisation, the German Spring Offensive, and his favourable impressions of the Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Earl Haig; on secondment to the Royal Navy, as GS01 (Naval Intelligence) at Constantinople monitoring events in Asia Minor, Eastern Europe and Russia, June 1919 - 1920; as Head of the Military Mission to Turkey, September 1939 - January 1940, based in Egypt as Turkey did not wish to prejudice her neutrality although he met the Turkish Army Chief of Staff in December 1939; Liaison Officer between Army HQ, West Africa and the West African Frontier Force in the field in East Africa from August 1940, and between Field Marshal Earl Wavell in Egypt and General J C Smuts in South Africa, both of whom he admired, from March 1941 until June 1941.

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