Although born in Ireland, Tom Butler, the son of a yacht skipper, moved to the Wirral when he was about four years of age. Upon joining the police force he served as a PC in the Cheshire force at Runcorn, Hartford and Birkenhead, before being promoted to sergeant and working in Ellesmere Port. He eventually reached the rank of Superintendent and was based at Dukinfield, near Manchester. Whilst he served with the Cheshire Police, he was a member of the Liverpool Police tug-of-war team that won the silver medal at the 1908 Olympics. Butler’s son Herbert was killed in action in France in 1918, aged just 19.
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