
Dr Will Butler
Head of Modern Collections at The National Archives
About
Will is a historian of the 19th and 20th-century British armed forces, particularly the British Army in 19th-century Ireland, and its role during the First and Second World Wars.
He works on a variety of projects, including the transfer of millions of military service records to The National Archives, and legacy work relating to the recent Great Escapes exhibition on prisoners of war and internees during the Second World War.