About Henry John Butler

Henry John 'Harry' Butler AFC was a pioneer Australian aviator, Captain and Chief Fight Instructor in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. When he flew an air mail run from Adelaide across Gulf St Vincent to Minlaton on 6 August 1919, it was the first over-water flight in the Southern Hemisphere carrying air mail and the first flight over a major body of water in the southern hemisphere.

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Henry John Butler

Pioneer aviator and WWI flying ace (1889–1922)

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