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Military service
Service number:
J/38675
Age:
26
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
405 Sqdn.
Death:
March 19, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
13. F. 7.
Additional information
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
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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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From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ROBERT STUART BUTTERWORTH
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Stuart Butterworth
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 500 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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