• Title
  Sir Hudson Fysh - postcard: Capt. H. Butler by monoplane over St Vincent Gulf, thence by Commonwealth Mail, 1919
• Call number
  PXA 1063/277
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1919
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Ephemera
• Reference code
  447078
• Physical Description
  Ephemera - 1 postcard - 8.7 x 14.1 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For details of Butler's career in aviation, see: Flypast : a record of aviation in Australia / Neville Parnell & Trevor Boughton. Canberra, ACT : AGPS, 1988 (entry for 12 July 1919, pp. 36-37)
• General note
  
  On his return from World War I, Captain Harry Butler flew airmail from Adelaide to his home town of Minlaton in a Bristol M.1C monoplane called Red Devil. Numbered souvenir postcards bore the inscription "The plane was great in War but it will be greater in Peace. This little souvenir from the Clouds is the beginning of a new era in mail and passenger transport. So keep your eye on the Aeroplane". Harry Butler, Harry Souvenir aerial post card 1919 -- Alan Davies, Curator of Photographs (2005)
  Souvenir postcard no. 103
  Postcard is stamped with a King Edward VII three halfpence postage stamp, franked "Minl[aton]"
  Postcard includes a portrait of Butler, with printed signature, on the reverse
  Digital order no:a1378002
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Mr. W. Peterson / Minlaton / S.A. -- address on the postcard
• Name
  Butler, Harry, 1889-1923
  Red Devil (aeroplane)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  aeroplanes
  airmail
  postage stamps
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3161600

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