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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Dragoons, R.C.A.C.
Division:
1st Armoured Car Regiment
Birth:
October 1, 1920
Kitchener, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 20, 1941
London, Ontario
Death:
April 16, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. D. 7.
Additional information
Son of Percy and Flora Gertrude Buddell, of Kitchener, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
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Photo of William Buddell
Lieutenant William Buddell was remembered at the "Thanksgiving for Victory" memorial service in Waterloo, Ontario on Sunday, May 20, 1945. -
Thanksgiving for Victory memorial service
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List of casualties remembered at the memorial service
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Sgt RT Davidson -
Memorial
William Thomas Buddell was severely wounded while liberating our village of Burdaard (The Netherlands). His name is remembered along with the local inhabitants who died during the Second World War. -
Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Holten Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Cemetery
Holten Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Thomas Buddell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 499 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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