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Military service
Service number:
504987
Age:
28
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
5th Field Coy.
Birth:
May 20, 1888
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
March 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. K. 8.
Additional information
Son of Elias George and Maggie Butcher, of Vancouver. Father and three sons served overseas.
Digital gallery of Sapper William Cleaver Butcher
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Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Burbank to Bytheway. Microform Sequence 16; Volume Number 31829_B016725. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 160. Page 729 of 926. -
Coupure de presse
From the Vancouver Daily Province April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From the Vancouver Daily Province April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Cleaver Butcher
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Cleaver Butcher
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Cleaver Butcher
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 211 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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