Author:
Captain George Malleson Butt
Approximately 250 letters written by Captain George Malleson Butt (1880-1936) of the Army Service Corps, written while on active service in the First World War, mainly with the Salonika Army and Black Sea Forces in the Balkans; the greater part addressed to his father George Weller Butt (d.1931) of Wilbury, Littlehampton, but with a number to his brother Charles Arthur Butt in Brighton. The earliest letters date from 1914, and the latest from 1919.The Butts were a prosperous family of Sussex timber merchants, trading in Littlehampton and Brighton under the name John Eede Butt & Sons.