Alan Samuel Butler

However he was sent straight from school to the military college at Sandhurst and on graduation to the Coldstream Guards arriving in France just after the Armistice.

[1] In 1925 Butler married Lois Knox-Niven (née Reid) and they had two children, a daughter Carol and a son David.

[2] He toured Europe in his new aircraft in 1923, the first English private owner to do so, before leaving for Labrador seeking a new Klondike.

Butler owned a series of De Havilland aircraft which he raced as well as establishing some world records.

[1] Lois Butler was one of the earliest women pilots appointed to the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War.

[1] He was active in South Bedfordshire's local affairs, serving many years as a JP, and continued to fly until he was 75.

Europa Rundflug 1930
Alan Butler and his co-pilot Hubert Broad in Berlin-Tempelhof
Butler's personal Phantom III Rolls-Royce . It was believed its special windscreen might prove aerodynamic
The same shape of windscreen on an aircraft of the same period