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Military service
Service number:
769878
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
October 8, 1895
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 3, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Only son of William H. and Drusilla A. Butler, of 514, Gladstone Avenue, Toronto.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Wilfred Butler
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Newspaper Article
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Newspaper Clipping
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Burbank to Bytheway. Microform Sequence 16; Volume Number 31829_B016725. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 160. Page 809 of 926. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Butler
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Butler
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Butler
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Butler
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Butler
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Butler
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Wilfred Butler
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 378 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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