Official Souvenir Booklet – Les Parsons

Images donated by Les Parsons, who came across many newspaper clippings and souvenirs relating to the epic flight while researching his book The Red Devil: The Story of South Australian Aviation Pioneer Captain Harry Butler. 

Harry Butler was a contemporary of the Smith crew and asked to be buried at North Rd Cemetery near Sir Ross Smith when he also died after an aircraft accident in the 1920s.