St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler

Major-General St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler CBE (30 November 1896 – 4 February 1959) was a British Army officer.

St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler
Major General Arcedeckne-Butler in 1944
Born(1896-11-30)30 November 1896
Died4 February 1959(1959-02-04) (aged 62)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1915–1946
RankMajor General
Service number10309
UnitRoyal Munster Fusiliers
Royal Sussex Regiment
Royal Corps of Signals
Commands heldSignals Experimental Establishment
Battles/warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsCommander of the Order of the British Empire

Biography

From Hampshire,[1] he was the son of St John Henry Arcedeckne-Butler and his wife, Maud, daughter of Captain Albert Money of Little Stodham, Liss, whom he had married in 1896.[2] He was educated in the USA and Switzerland before entering Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1915 and served in France and Belgium. He was one of the two young British officers who were sent to study at the prestigious Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supélec), Paris, after the end of World War I.[3]

He transferred to Royal Sussex Regiment in 1922 and then to the Royal Corps of Signals in 1923.[3]

Between 1934 and 1939, he was Superintendent of a Signals Experimental Establishment and an Army Member of the Experimental sub-committee of the Wireless Telegraphy Board.[4]

He was a Colonel on General Staff in the War Office in 1940, and, as a Major-General (temporary) he was Deputy Director-General at the Ministry of Supply between 1941 and 1946.[3]

In the 1946 New Year Honours, Major-General (temporary) St. John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler (10309), late Royal Corps of Signals, was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[5] He retired from the Army the same year and was appointed a Director of Romary & Co. Ltd., Thermionic Products Ltd. and other companies and a member of the Broadcasting Advisory Committee, Eire.[3]

In 1929, St. John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler married Ethel Helen, daughter of the late Lt.-Col. R. Selby-Walker, R.E. They had two sons and a daughter.[3]

Arms
Coat of arms of St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler
Notes
Exemplified to James Henry Edward Butler, Esq., son of Hon. St. John Butler, by Anna Maria his wife, only daughter and heiress of Walter Arcedeckne Burke, Esq., of Gortnamona, County Galway, upon his taking by Royal Licence, 4th November, 1867. the additional name of Arcedeckne.
Crest
1st, out of a ducal coronet Or, a plume of five ostrich feathers therefrom a demi-falcon rising Argent a label on a crescent for difference, for Butler; 2nd, a cubit arm erect vested Argent charged with three chevronels Sable the hand Proper grasping a sword Argent pommel and hilt Or, for Arcedeckne.
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or, a chief indented Azure three escallops in bend counterchanged, a label on a crescent for difference, for Butler; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, three chevronels Sable, for Arcedeckne.[6]
Motto
TIMOR DOMINI FONS VITAE

References
  1. Smart 2005, p. 13.
  2. "Arcedeckne of Gortnamona - Burke's East Galway". Burke's East Galway. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  3. Square, Soho. Whos Who 1951.
  4. "The Air Force List, January 1939" (PDF). National Library of Scotland. 23 August 2018.
  5. "1946 New Year Honours" (pdf). Supplement to The London Gazette. No. 37407. London Gazette (published 1 January 1946). 28 December 1945. p. 17. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  6. Burke, Bernard (1989). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. London: R.Pinches. p. 22.

Bibliography
  • Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.
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