261184 PFC. Bartholomew F. Butler US Army Coy. F 308th Infantry Regiment from:New York (d.16th July 1918) Bartholomew Butler was born in July 1895 (per 1900 US census)
in Brooklyn, New York City, Kings Co., New York.
Newspaper article:
Private Barth F. Butler.
Private Bartholomew F. Butler, died of wounds, was born in Brooklyn twenty two years ago. He was a graduate of Visitation Parochial School, He was a member of the Visitation Church and the Holy Name Society. He was also an active member of the Old Hill House Club. In September 1917, he was drafted and went overseas last April [1918] with the 308th Infantry. His mother received a telegram from Washington on Oct. 23 stating her son had died on July 16 and had been buried with full military honors in France.
He lived at 127 Dikeman Street where he is survived by his mother, Elizabeth, his father, Thomas; three brothers, James, Walter and Thomas, and two sisters, Elizabeth Butler and [Mary] Mrs. J. Taylor.
Brooklyn Daily Standard Union, 29 October 1918
I have been unable to locate where he is buried in France. According to Hussey, Alexander T.; Flynn, Raymond M. "The history of Company E, 308th Infantry (1917-1919)", (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1919) at p. 25, Company F relieved Company E on July 5, 1918, at the front line trenches near Badonvillers, France, on that part of the front line covered by posts 14 to 23 inclusive. So, am assuming this is where Bartholomew F. Butler was wounded and died.
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