BUTLER, Thomas Vernon
| Service Number: | QX20717 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 February 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/25th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 27 December 1915 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station Hand |
| Died: | Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 28 June 1975, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 24 Feb 1941: | Involvement QX20717 | |
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| 24 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX20717, 2nd/25th Infantry Battalion | |
| 24 Feb 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 27 Jun 1941: | Embarked Private, QX20717, 25th Infantry Battalion, ex Sydney per US 11A | |
| 4 Oct 1942: | Promoted Signaller, 25th Infantry Battalion | |
| 27 Feb 1946: | Discharged Signaller, QX20717, 25th Infantry Battalion | |
| 27 Feb 1946: | Discharged | |
| 27 Feb 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX20717, 2nd/25th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Thomas (Tom)Vernon was the second of five children of Thomas Harold Butler (born 1887 in Brisbane, QLD) and Elizabeth Jane McKeown Russell (born 1889 in Brisbane, QLD). Thomas Snr and Elizabeth raised their family in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane QLD where Thomas Snr was a Drayman.
Tom worked as a Labourer and Station Hand in West QLD, including Longreach before enlisting in Brisbane in 1941 in The Australian Army. He served as a Private and Signaller (Service No: QX20717) with 2/25 Battalion in the Middle East (1941), New Guinea (1942) and Borneo (1945). Following his Discharge in 1946, Tom returned to Brisbane and worked briefly as a Labourer before training as a Technician. He worked as a Technician in Brisbane, then Burke (1954) before settling in Cairns where he died in 1975.
Brothers - George Harold (Service No: Q103029) and Eric William (Service No: Q146090) - also served in the Australian Army in WWII