Sir Thomas Butler, 12th Baronet

Colonel Sir Thomas Pierce Butler, 12th Baronet CVO DSO OBE JP FRGS (18 September 1910 – 9 April 1994) was an Irish soldier.

[1] He was the only son of Sir Richard Butler, 11th Baronet (1872–1955), the High Sheriff of Carlow in 1905, and Alice Dudley Leigh (daughter of the Very Rev.

[2] His family home, known as Ballintemple House near Tullow, County Carlow, a three-story Georgian mansion with a five-bay entrance front burned down in 1917.

Butler was the commander of the company leading the attack on the German 90th Light Division of the Afrika Korps.

Reportedly, Butler walked for over 400 miles, crisscrossing the Apennine Mountains before meeting the British Army.

They were the parents of two daughters and a son:[2] Sir Thomas died on 9 April 1994 while he was fishing on the River Slaney.