Military service
Service number:
B/64737
Age:
26
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
May 9, 1918
Arkona, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 18, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Bernières-sur-mer, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. D. 16.
Additional information
Son of James and Annie Butler of Arkona, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Edgar Dawson Butler
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Photo of Edgar Butler
Dawson was one of my fathers brothers. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Canadian Legion (Ontario Command) Military Service Recognition Book Volume V. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Bio
From Vol. 5 of the Ontario Canadian Legion Military Service Recognition Book. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Grave Marker
This is a picture taken during a visit to the Normandy beaches in 1989. Rifleman Butler is not related to me, it is a random picture but I will be eternally grateful for his, and the sacrifice of others. -
Gravemarker
Captain Craig Cameron took this photo of Rifleman Butler's gravemarker in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery during a trip to Normandy in June 1997. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Bruce MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edgar Dawson Butler
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edgar Dawson Butler
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edgar Dawson Butler
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edgar Dawson Butler
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edgar Dawson Butler
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edgar Dawson Butler
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Edgar Dawson Butler
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 264 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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