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Son of Ernest Albert Reynolds Butterworth and Agnes Bannerman Butterworth; husband of Georgina Best Butterworth, of Richville, New York, U.S.A. Member Phalanx Hon. Frat., Clarkson College,
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Crew of Lancaster PB451.<P>
On 19 March 1945, PB451 was airborne 0132 from Gransden Lodge O/P Witten, Germany, from which it failed to return. The crew are buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery. They are: F/O (P) G.E.Peaker age 33 from Saskatoon; Sgt A.Kirkcaldy, F/O (N) E.Hayes age 21 Vancouver; F/O (BA) R.S.Butterworth age 26 Ottawa; Sgt R.P.Smith RAF; WO2 (WAG) R.M.Baker age 22 Toronto; F/S (AG) E.F.Perrault age 20 Fort Francis; F/S (AG) J.P.H.Adam age 21 Tecumseh, Ontario.
(F/O Butterworth was from Richville, New York.)
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Crew of Lancaster PB451.<P> On 19 March 1945, PB451 was airborne 0132 from Gransden Lodge O/P Witten, Germany, from which it failed to return. The crew are buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery. They are: F/O (P) G.E.Peaker age 33 from Saskatoon; Sgt A.Kirkcaldy, F/O (N) E.Hayes age 21 Vancouver; F/O (BA) R.S.Butterworth age 26 Ottawa; Sgt R.P.Smith RAF; WO2 (WAG) R.M.Baker age 22 Toronto; F/S (AG) E.F.Perrault age 20 Fort Francis; F/S (AG) J.P.H.Adam age 21 Tecumseh, Ontario. (F/O Butterworth was from Richville, New York.)
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 500 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany
Rheinberg is 24 kilometres north of Krefeld and 13 kilometres south of Wesel, in the locality of Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal. The cemetery is 3 kilometres south of the centre of the town of Rheinberg on the road to Kamp Lintfort. From the motorway 57, turn off at Rheinberg and at the T junction follow the 510 in the direction Kamp Lintfort. The cemetery is a short way along this road on the right.
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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