Personal Number: 45468 Rank: Captain Name: Peter PITMAN-BUTLER, MiD Unit: 7th Queen's Own Hussars London Gazette : 2 September 1932 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33860/page/5621/data.pdf The undermentioned University Candi- dates, to be 2nd Lts., 3rd Sept. 1932, with seniority as stated against their names:— CAVALRY. 7th H.— 2nd Lt. Peter PITMAN BUTLER, from Gen. List, T.A. 29th Jan. 1931, next below 2nd Lt. A. C. F Drew-Wilkinson. London Gazette : 1 April 1941 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35120/supplement/1872/data.pdf The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned for distinguished services in the Middle East during the period August, 1939, to November, 1940: — Pitman-Butler, Capt. P . (45468) (since deceased).
London Gazette : 1 April 1941 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35120/supplement/1869/data.pdf https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35120/supplement/1872/data.pdf
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2274337/peter-pitman-butler/ CAPTAIN PETER PITMAN-BUTLER Service Number: 45468 Regiment & Unit: 7th Queen's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps Date of Death: 17 July 1940 Age 29 years old Buried or commemorated at CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY Grave Reference: P. 240. Location: Egypt Awards: Mentioned in Despatches Additional Info: Son of Ernest and Frances Isabel Pitman, of Dyrham, Wiltshire. B.A.(Oxon.).
See also: Pitman Family Pitman Family. © Cedric Hudson (WMR-7409) His siblings: 5465 Captain John PITMAN, 3rd King's Own Hussars: 01/10/1943 First Officer Honor Isabel PITMAN, Air Transport Auxiliary: 19/04/1943 A surviving brother - James Pitman - Wikipedia "was born in Kensington, London, on the 14th of August 1901. His father was Ernest Pitman and his mother was Frances Isabel Pitman, nee Butler. He was the eldest child in the family and had five other siblings, but three were killed in the Second World War:[1] Major John Pitman, born 22 Jan 1907 (killed in military action in Palestine, during World War II)[3][4] Captain Peter Pitman Butler, born 05 Mar 1911 (killed in military action in Egypt, during World War II) [5][4] First Officer Honor Isabel Salmon nee Pitman, born 30 Oct 1912 (killed while piloting an Airspeed Oxford for the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1943, during World War II).[4]" Their grandfather was the Isaac Pitman who had developed Shorthand Writing known as Pitman Shorthand
