3-052-389 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Captain Butson, 9th Lancers, killed at Cabul, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by L. Werner, of Dublin. 'Among the officers belonging to the army under General Sir F. Roberts at Cabul, who were killed in the fighting that took place between Dec. 11 and Dec. 15, on the hills south of that city, was Captain Strange Goold Butson, of the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General Massy, in command of the cavalry. This gallant officer was eldest son of the Ven. and Rev. C. Goold Butson, of St. Brandan's, near Eyre-court, in the county of Galway, Dean of Kilmacduagh, and Incumbent of Eyrecourt; his mother was of the family of Eyre Maunsell, of Fort Eyre, in that county. He entered the regiment in July, 1870, and his commission of Captain bore date Feb. 16, 1878. He was killed on the 15th December [1879], while leading a charge of the Lancers against a numerous body of the Afghans, strongly posted, and armed with Snider rifles'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.