About William Butler
Lived 1917 – 1996 (aged 78–79). William Butler was a boxer.
William Harry Butler (17 September 1916 – 1996) was a boxer who competed for England.
Biography Butler represented the England team and won a gold medal in the 54 kg division at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia. He boxed out of the Standard B.C.
Butler was an electrician by trade and lived in Stratford Street, Upper Stoke, Coventry in the late 1930s.
Butler died in Coventry in 1996.
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Who was William Butler?
English boxer born 1917
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William Butler was born in 1917.
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William Butler died in 1996.
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William Butler was a boxer.
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