St. John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler

Major-General St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler (30 November 1896 – 4 February 1959) was a British Army officer. Biography From Hampshire, he was the son of St John Henry Arcedeckne-Butler and his wife, Maud, daughter of Captain Albert Money of Little Stodham, Liss, whom he had married in 1896. He was educated in the USA and Switzerland before entering Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1915 and served in France and Belgium. He was one of the two young British officers who were sent to study at the prestigious Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supélec), Paris, after the end of World War I. He transferred to Royal Sussex Regiment in 1922 and then to the Royal Corps of Signals in 1923. Between 1934 and 1939, he was Superintendent of a Signals Experimental Establishment and an Army Member of the Experimental sub-committee of the Wireless Telegraphy Board.