Peter Butt, a boilermaker from Horwich near Bolton, played for Petersburg against Broken Hill in 1913, losing 4-1; and against an Adelaide XI in 1914.
He was employed by SA Railways at Petersburg. He married Elizabeth Reeves in 1913 and enlisted at Petersburg on 16th February 1916, aged 25. Though arriving in England later that year with the 50th Battalion, he would never serve at the Front. Allocated to a depot company, by 1918 Butt was serving with the Australian Medical Corps in England. His disciplinary record was not great, and in June 1918 he was granted a medical discharge on condition he became an “Australian Munition Worker” in England.
Butt and his wife lived at Horwich, but at some point they must have returned to Australia as he played for Peterborough against an Adelaide XI in 1922. He died in a nursing home at West Hindmarsh in 1985, aged 95.