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Monument to Captain Butler, and his Two Brothers, at Thomastown, 1856. Marble monument to officers of the British Army who died during the Crimean War, '...in the parish church of Thomas-town, county Kilkenny, to the memory of Captain James Armar Butler, the gallant defender of Silistria...of Captain Henry Thomas Butler, of the 55th Foot, who felt whilst gallantly fighting at the Battle of Inkerman; and of Captain George Butler, of the 86th Foot, who died of fever in Bombay in December, 1854. These gallant brothers, the sons of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Henry Edward Butler...all died within a period of six months whilst gloriously fighting in the cause of their country...This monument has been erected at the sole expense of the hon. and gallant father of the deceased; the designer being Mr. Gaffin...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.