Lesley James Probyn Butler

Brigadier-General Lesley James Probyn Butler, (22 April 1876 – 31 December 1955) was an officer of the Irish Guards.

Military career Butler was born on 22 April 1876, the son of the 26th Baron Dunboyne. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry on 1 December 1899. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War that year, a number of militia battalions were called up for active service. Butler went to South Africa, and on 28 March 1900 was transferred to a commission with a regular battalion in the regiment. For his service in the war, he was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with four clasps. He later transferred to the Irish Guards.

Butler served in the First World War from 1914 to 1918, being mentioned in despatches six times and receiving the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel, the Distinguished Service Order in 1916 and being appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1917 Birthday Honours. He retired from the army in 1922.