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Military service
Service number:
K/52300
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Saskatoon Light Infantry (M.G.), R.C.I.C.
Birth:
February 9, 1920
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Enlistment:
September 14, 1939
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
December 16, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX. A. 15.
Additional information
Son of George and Elizabeth Margaret Butler of Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Brother of Flight Lieutenant John David Butler, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Private Gordon William Butler
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Cemetery
Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 -
Photo of Gordon William Butler
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon William Butler
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon William Butler
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon William Butler
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon William Butler
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon William Butler
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon William Butler
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon William Butler
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 142 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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