Correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs concerning John Butler's service in the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Includes draft notice, letters to family members describing his training at Camp Dix, April 1918, and battle experiences in France, June through October, 1918. Also, photographs of the Butler family; correspondence from the War Department concerning Butler's death in the Argonne Forest and his interrment; and photographs of Butler as well as unidentified Butler and Babcock family photograhs and a Red Cross photograph of John Butler's grave.