Neville Butler (rugby league)
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| Full name | Neville Edward Butler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 August 1917 Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 November 1944 (aged 27) Berlin, Nazi Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fullback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: As of 1 March 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Neville Edward Butler (6 August 1917 – 29 November 1944) was a RAAF Flying Officer who was killed while flying a raid over Germany in WWII. He had been a top-grade rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s for North Sydney in the NSWRL competition.