Military Aide

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Washington Times	TAFT FEELS LOSS OF AIDE AS IF HE HAD BEEN BROTHER President, In Statement, Praises Fidelity of Late Military Aide --- President Taft today issued another statement relative to the fate of Major Butt, in which he dwelt particularly on his incapability to indulge in “intrigue or insincer...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	TAFT DENIES BUTT WENT ON MISSION TO THANK PONTIFF President Sends Letter to Tennessean Explaining Trip of Military Aide --- President Taft today denied Major Archibald Butt was returning from a mission to Rome when he went to his death on the luckless Tiatnic. ...	22nd April 1912
Washington Times	WOMAN FAINTS WHEN TOLD BUTT IS AMONG MISSING NEW YORK, April 18---A woman claiming to be the second cousin of Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President Taft, from Plymouth, Mass., called at the White Star line office this morning to inquire whether anything had been heard of her missing ...	18th April 1912
Denver Post	ARCHIBALD C. BUTT WAS TO HAVE BEEN MARRIED THIS FALL Was Engaged to Youngest Daughter of Col. John R. Williams San Antonio, Tex., April 18:- Major Archibald C. Butt, military aide to President Taft, soon was to wed Miss Williams of Washington, sister-in-law of Joseph Leiter of Chicag...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	ARCHIBALD BUTT, MILITARY AIDE TO PRESIDENT TAFT Major Archibald de Grafenreid Willingham Butt, who was on the Titanic, was returning to Washington on sick leave, and expected to resume his duties as military aide to President Taft at once. Suffering from that mild poisoning which follows an unendi...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MAJ. BUTT TO BE HELD MAY 5TH President and Senators Pay High Tributes to Dead Hero --- Memorial services for Major Archibald Butt, whose name is one of the most prominent among the Titanic’s heroic dead, will be held in this city on May 5 under the auspices of Temp...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	MAJOR BUTT'S MEMORY HONORED BY MASONS The memory of Major Arcxhibald Butt, believed to be among those who went down with the Titanic, was honored last night at a meeting of Robert de Bruce Council, Kinights of Kadosh, No. 1 of Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite Masons. Cap...	18th April 1912
	ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY CENOTAPH The place chosen by Maj. Butt as his final resting place...
Washington Times	LIST OF WASHINGTONIANS ON FATED STEAMER GROWS As the list of passengers sailing from Southampton on the Titanic last Wednesday is made more complete, the list of Washingtonians known to have been on board grows larger. The list now contains the names of five Washingtonians who make this city the...	16th April 1912
	THE BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, 1913 The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain was erected by the contributions of friends of Major Archibald Willingham Butt and Francis Davis Millet. "The 8-foot-high fountain is composed of a marble shaft of simple Neo-c...	1913
Washington Times	PRESIDENT AND FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT FEAR HE WENT DOWN WITH SHIP "The White Stare [sic] Line Company his searched its list of survivors for the name of Major Archibald Butt. We regret to say that his name does not appear up to the present time among those known to be saved.” The above message, in e...	16th April 1912
Washington Times	NATION MAY RAISE GREAT MEMORIAL TO DISASTER'S HERO Whole Country Likely to Be Asked to Contribute to Fund for Monument to Major Butt, Who Gave Life for Others --- An agitation has been started at the White House among the friends of Major Archibald Butt for the erection of a memorial mo...	20th April 1912
New York Times	CAPT. ROSTRON RECEIVES ROYAL HONOR Copyright, 1924, by The New York Times Company --- By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 25---Captain Arthur H. Rostron, commander of the Cunard liner Mauretania, who, as captain of the Carpathia, rescued the ...	26th February 1924
New York Times	MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT President's Aid Had Gone on a Special Mission to the Pope --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15.-Major Archibald Willingham Butt, President Taft’s Military Aid, [sic] was returning on the Titanic afte...	16th April 1912
New York Times	SILENT TOAST TO MAJOR BUTT. NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 23.---A silent toast to Major Archibald Butt was drunk last night by the Second Company Governor's Foot Guard, one of the historic military organizations of the State, at its annual observance of the anniversary of the depa...	24th April 1912
Le Mémorial des Pyrénées	MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT New-York, April 17. President Taft sent messages everywhere he could, so anxious was he about the fate of his aide-de-camp major Archibald Butt. Butt was on his return journey from Rome where Taft ha...	18th April 1912
New York Times	UNDERWOOD BUYS MAJOR BUTT'S HOUSE WASHINGTON, Nov. 22---Representative Oscar Underwood of Alabama, Democratic leader of the House, completed to-day his purchase of the residence of Major Archibald D. [sic] Butt, former Military Aid under Presidents Roosevelt and Taft at the White Hou...	23rd November 1912
New York Times	MONUMENT TO BUTT SOON Promoters Almost Ready to Start Work on Fountain --- WASHINGTON, June 18---Work on the foundation for the fountain to be erected to the memory of Major Archibald W. Butt, Military Aid to President Taft, and Francis Millet, the arti...	19th June 1913
The Evening Telegram	AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
	DEATH OF A CRESWELL SOLDIER According to an obituary in the Worksop Guardian Mr. Hardwick lived at 70 Duke Street, Creswell. He succumbed following an illness of two days at the Fulham Hospital, London. He had only been a soldier for eight weeks, having been in training ...
'Berth 44'	CARL SPENCER ~ A TRAGIC LOSS Sunday 24 May 2009, whilst diving on the wreck of the Britannic, 37 year old Carl Spencer part of the expedition team exploring the wreck site in the Agean sea, 150 nautical miles south-east of Athens, was taken ill with Decompression sickness (the bends). Carl was airlifted to a Naval hospital in Athens but never regained consciousness, he was pronounced dead at the military medical facility. Carl father of two was from from Burton-on-trent, Staffordshire, I only met him once, he will be a great loss to us all, our deepest sympathy to his family....	25th May 2009
Washington Herald	MAJ. BUTT' S PLACE NOT YET FILLED President Taft Has Not Asked War Department to Fill Vacancy as Chief Aid --- President Taft has not yet asked the War Department to detail a chief White House aid to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Maj. Butt. The War Department ...	21st April 1912
New York Times	ITALY ALLOWS FIERMONTE TO GO ON WEDDING TRIP By The Associated Press --- ROME, March 7---Enzo Fiermonte and his second wife, the former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, left tonight on their long-sought second wedding trip on the French Riviera after having successfuily wound thei...	8th March 1935
	ALGONQUIN 1939 The Algonquin, Mohawk's sister ship and the rescuer of most of her survivors, is seen here in a stylised 1939 graphic promoting her service between Gulf ports and the New York World's Fair. In July 1940 she caught fire and sank at her pier in New York City. She was raised and repaired, and transferred to the Porto Rico Line when she returned to service in 1941. Her career with them was brief: in January 1942 she taken over by the US Military, and after serving as both a transport and a hospital ship, was laid up in 1946 and scrapped in 1957....	1939
New York Times	MRS. THOMAS CARDEZA Page 21, column 1 Wife of Philadelphia Explorer, Kin of Racine, Red Cross Aide PHILADELPHIA, Nov 11 Mrs. Mary Racine Cardeza, wife of Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza, Philadelphia sportsman and explorer, ...	12th November 1943
New York Times	CAPT. HADDOCK DEAD, OLYMPIC EX-MASTER SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 5 (AP)---Capt. Herbert James Haddock, a former commodore of the old White Star Line, died today. His age was 85. During the first World War he commanded a dummy fleet of wooden dreadnoughts and battle cruise...	6th October 1946
Washington Times	PRESIDENT'S AIDE AMONG PASSENGERS ON CRIPPLED SHIP Major Butt Was to Have Returned to Capital Shortly --- Major Archibald Butt, military aid to President; Clarence Moore, prominent in Washington social and financial circles, as well as one of the city’s best known horsemen; Frank D. Mil...	16th April 1912
New York Times	FOR BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL Fountain to Titanic Victims to be Erected Near White House --- WASHINGTON, Oct. 23---Plans will be completed in the near future for the dedication of a fountain erected south of the White House in honor of the memories ...	24th October 1913
Washington Times	DEATH OF MAJOR BUTT MOURNED BY WASHINGTONIANS Persons in Official and Private Life Speak Eulogistically of the President’s Military Aide Who Died---A Soldier --- Men of the United States army and navy, men who lived under the same roof---the men who knew Major Butt most intimately-...	19th April 1912
Washington Post	OWNER WHO FLED STRICKEN TITANIC DIES AS RECLUSE London, Oct. 18 (Monday).—Joseph Bruce Ismay, 74 years old, former owner of the White Star Line and former president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., who survived the Titanic disaster, d...	18th October 1937
Derbyshire Times	PRIVATE REGINALD HARDWICKE, A.S.A. Private Reginald Hardwicke, A.S.A., of 7- Duke Street, Creswell, Derbyshire has succumbed to a two days illness at the Fulham Hospital, London. He only joined up eight weeks ago, having been in training at Isleworth, Middlesex. He was 26 years...	9th March 1918
	ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND This 1911 record made by the Victor Military Band is very well recorded and gives an idea of the fast pace the song used to be played at. This is one song that many survivors recall being played on the night of the sinking. In fact it is not r...	1911
Le Petit Journal	M. FALLIERES SENDS MESSAGES TO KING GEORGE AND PRESIDENT TAFT President of French Republic feels concerned about Major Butt...	17th December 1908
New York Times	FASHION DISPLAY AT PALACE Lady Duff-Gordon Appears far a War Charity---Herman Timberg --- A fashion display staged by Lady Duff-Gordon, and including that personage herself as an added attraction, was the mecca that drew an unusually large crowd to the Palace T...	4th December 1917
L'Eclaireur de Nice et du Sud-Ouest	MORT DE M. GOLDENBERG FONDATEUR DU FLAMBEAU FRANCO-AMERICAIN C’est avec un vif regret que nous apprenons le décès, survenu hier, de M. Sam Goldenberg, président-fondateur du Flambeau franco-américain. M. Goldenberg, citoyen américain, était âgé de 73 ans. C...	12th October 1936
Washington Herald	MAJ. BUTT TOLD FRIENDS HE HAD FEAR OF MISHAP Remarks of the President's Aid Before Going Abroad Are Recalled --- President Taft yesterday made earnest efforts to obtain news of Maj. Archibald Butt, his military aid. He communicated two or three times with the White Star offices i...	17th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. E. B. SHERFESEE, ONCE HOOVER AIDE Head of the American Fund for French Wounded Won Croix de Guerre---Titanic Survivor --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 29---Mrs. Emily Borie Sherfesee, wife of Forsythe Sherfesee, former fiananc...	30th December 1939
New York Times	TAFT CONCERNED FOR BUTT Chance of Major's Safety a Faint One, but President Holds to It --- WASHINGTON, April 16---The White House was not a cheerful place to-day, for President Taft, most of his Cabinet, and many callers were deeply concerned over the probabl...	17th April 1912
New York Times	CAPT ROSTRON AT CONCERT For the Benefit of Titanic's Musicians---Receives $10,000 To-day --- Capt. Arthur Henry Rostron of the Cunard liner Carpathia returned last night to the Carpathia after his trip to Philadelphia, where he had been the guest of Mrs. John ...	3rd June 1912
Cleveland Plain Dealer	BUTT A COURTIER TO DEATH, SAYS WOMAN Washington, April 19 – A graphic story of the heroism of Maj. Archibald W. Butt on the Titanic was told today in an interview given by Miss Marie Young, a former resident of Washington. Miss Young is believed to have been the last woman to leave the ...	20th April 1912
Washington Times	J. J. ASTOR ACTED BRAVELY, DECLARE MANY WHO SAW HIM Millionaire Kissed His Bride Good-by, Saluted, and Then Stepped Back to Allow Women to Get Into Boats --- NEW YORK, April 19---Col. John Jacob Astor kissed his bride good-by as he placed her in the waiting lifeboat. Then he drew himself...	19th April 1912
New York Times	KARL H. BEHR DIES; DILLON, READ AIDE Page 87, column 3 Vice President of Banking Firm for 24 Years Once Known as Leading Tennis Player. Karl H. Behr, vice president of Dillon, Read & Co., bankers, 28 Nassau Street, who was one of the country's leading tenni...	16th October 1949
New York Times	MAJOR BUTT'S SUIT A WONDER Sails Away in it for Rome, the Envy of the Ship ---------- Major Archibald Butt, military aid [sic] to the President of the United States, sailed yesterday for Europe on the North German Lloyd liner Berlin for a rest in a suit...	3rd March 1912
New York Times	TAFT AT PRESS CLUB DINNER He and Major Butt Entertained in Louisville-Col. Watterson Speaks --- LOUISVILLE, Nov. 8.--A dinner by the Louisville Press Club was the principal feature of President Taft's visit here this evening, and at it the President divid...	11th August 1911
BBC News	UK DIVER DIES ON BRITANNIC FILM SHOOT The man, one of Britain's most experienced dive masters, was leading a filming expedition around the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic....	24th May 2009
Washington Times	CAPITAL RESIDENTS IN NEW YORK FOR CARPATHIA'S COMING Anxious for News From Friends Aboard the Titanic --- With barely one thread of hope that three of the Washingtonians who sailed from Southampton on the ill-fated Titanic a week ago yesterday are still alive, a party of Washingtonians to...	18th April 1912
New York Times	LORD MERSEY DIES IN HIS 90TH YEAR Regarded as the Grand Old Man of the English Legal Profession --- HEADED SHIPPING INQUIRIES --- Presided at Investigation into the Lusitania, Titanic and Other Disasters --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES...	4th September 1929
Titanic Research	THE BOY IN THE PICTURE Gavin Murphy The story of Ned Parfett: newsboy, soldier and photographic icon....	28th March 2002
Indianapolis Star	TITANIC VOYAGE TOUCHED INDIANA PASSENGERS' LIVES Thirteen Titanic passengers had Hoosier connections. Here are six of their stories....	23rd September 2010
New York Times	SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON SAILS AS COMMODORE Senior Cunard Captain Heads Fleet, Succeeding Late Sir James Charles --- HERO OF TITANIC DISASTER --- Wears Many Honors for Rescue and War Service---Berengaria Is His 13th Command --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostr...	29th July 1928
Daily Home News	HOME NEWS GAVE CITY FIRST NEWS OF CARPATHIA'S LANDING New Brunswick received the news of the landing of the Carpathia with the rescued Titanic passengers, from the Home News last night. The details of the landing and the passengers’ stories of the disaster, were wired to this office direct, and other bu...	19th April 1912
New York Times	TAFT'S TRIBUTE TO BUTT WASHINGTON, April 19---President Taft was notified as soon as the Carpathia docked and the corrected list of survivors was made public that Major Butt was not on board. With all hope for the rescue of his aid abandoned, the President to-day issued...	20th April 1912
New York Times	COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR Wealthy Society Man and an Author and Inventor as Well --- Col. John Jacob Astor, the American head of the Astor family, has held a prominent place in the life of this city for many years. Not alone has he been a conspicuous club member...	16th April 1912
New York Times	WHY MAJOR BUTT, THE PRESIDENT'S AIDE, WENT TO ROME By a Veteran Diplomat --- That President Taft has made up his mind to follow the custom of the non-Catholic Courts and Governments in Europe, on the subject of the precedence to be accorded to Cardinals in the United States, no matter w...	14th April 1912
New York Times	THE CEDRIC'S PARROT MASCOT "Baden-Powell" Won Purser McElroy's Heart by Sighting a "Landlubber off the Starboard Not since the days of Funston the famous Mexican parrot of Castle William on Governors Island, has there been seen in the...	4th May 1903