Curio

State Library of New South Wales

Sunday 6 May 1917 Letter

John Herbert Butler correspondence, 1914–1920, MLMSS 1003/ Item 2

Manuscript

After flying for a few months, Butler was admitted to the 14th Australian General Hospital suffering from dyspepsia. He was admitted several times at the beginning of 1918, and by the end of April was sent home due to illness.

Butler died in 1924, at the age of 30, from lymphocytic leukaemia.