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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Enlistment:
Bowmanville, Ontario
Death:
April 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
D. 22.
Additional information
Son of George and Rebecca Butson, of Staffa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William George Butson
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Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
Photo of William Butson
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen beside the Tower is that of William George Butson. After the Second World War, the names of 557 more men and women were carved in the Memorial Arch underneath the Tower. Photo: K. Parks. -
Photo of William George Butson
Lt. William George Butson, circa 1916 -
Photo of William George Butson
William George Butson - graduation photo from Seaforth Collegiate Institute, circa 1912. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM GEORGE BUTSON
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William George Butson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William George Butson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William George Butson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William George Butson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William George Butson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William George Butson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William George Butson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William George Butson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William George Butson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 211 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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