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Nationality | England | ||||||||||||||
Born | 17 September 1916 | ||||||||||||||
Died | 1996 Coventry, England | ||||||||||||||
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William Harry Butler (17 September 1916 – 1996) was a boxer who competed for England.
Boxing career
Butler represented England and won a gold medal in the 54 kg division at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.[1][2]
Personal life
Butler was an electrician by trade and lived in Stratford Street, Upper Stoke, Coventry in the late 1930s.[3]
Butler died in Coventry in 1996.[4]
References
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ "1938 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "1939 England and Wales Register". Ancestry. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- ↑ "England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007". Ancestry. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
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