Personal information | |||
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Full name | Albert Victor Butler | ||
Place of birth | Reading, England | ||
Date of death | (1916-05-13)13 May 1916 (aged 29) | ||
Place of death | Bruay-la-Buissière, France | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
Position(s) | Centre half | ||
Youth career | |||
0000–1908 | Woolwich Arsenal | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1908–1912 | Reading | ||
1912–1913 | Hartlepools United | 25 | (1) |
1913–1916 | Queens Park Rangers | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Albert Victor Butler (died 13 May 1916), known as Ben Butler, was an English professional footballer who played as a centre half in the Southern League for Reading.
Personal life
Butler supplemented his football income by working as an engine cleaner for the South East Railway Company. During the First World War, he served as a corporal in the 1st Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. On 3 May 1916, Butler was wounded in the right leg by a shell during urban combat in Liévin, France. The leg was subsequently amputated and he died as a result 10 days later at No.22 Casualty Clearing Station in Bruay-la-Buissière. Butler left a widow, Kate and two sons and was buried in Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension. Butler's will, in which he left everything to Kate, survives and is in the archives of Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service.
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Hartlepools United | 1912–13 | North Eastern League | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 26 | 1 | |
Queens Park Rangers | 1913–14 | Southern League First Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
1914–15 | Southern League First Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
Career total | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 1 |
- ^ Appearance in London Challenge Cup
Honours
Reading
- Southern League Second Division: 1910–11
References
- ^ "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ "Royals Remember Ben". Reading FC | Home of the Royals!. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, John; Holmes, Richard (20 November 2008). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War (1st ed.). Sparkford: Haynes Publishing. p. 96. ISBN 9781844256563.
- ^ Lee, Matt (29 August 2013). "World War I soldier wills digitised for online archive". BBC Online. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- "Visiting the Western Front: 2" (PDF). pp. 4–5. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- "Albert Butler". In The Mad Crowd. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
- "Seasonal Stats – Files – 1913–14". QPRnet. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
- "Seasonal Stats – Files – 1914–15". QPRnet. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
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