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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
From the Daily Colonist of June 15, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y160uvic#mode/1up
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Boyer Butler
From the Daily Colonist of June 15, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y160uvic#mode/1up
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
Private Butler originally enlisted with the 30th (British Columbia) Bn. He along with 300 other members of the 30th were transferred to the 15th Bn as replacements following the Battle of 2nd Ypres. Private Butler was killed shortly afterward during the Battle of Festubert.
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
Private Butler originally enlisted with the 30th (British Columbia) Bn. He along with 300 other members of the 30th were transferred to the 15th Bn as replacements following the Battle of 2nd Ypres. Private Butler was killed shortly afterward during the Battle of Festubert.
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
Cap Badge 30th Bn (British Columbia). Private Butler was a member of the 30th Bn before being sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcementshortly after the Battle of 2nd Ypres. Submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
The Memorial at Festubert France was unveilded and dedicated on 23 Oct 2011 to commemorate the actions of the 15th Battalion CEF (48th Highlanders of Canada) on 20 May 1915 during the Battle of Festubert. Photo by BGen (ret) G Young and submitted by Capt (ret) V Goldman of the 15th Battalion Memorial Project.
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
Record of Service Card (front side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
Record of Service Card (reverse side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
From the London Free Press June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Boyer Butler
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private Herbert Boyer Butler
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Daily Colonist of June 15, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y160uvic#mode/1up
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From the Daily Colonist of June 15, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y160uvic#mode/1up
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Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH Private Butler originally enlisted with the 30th (British Columbia) Bn. He along with 300 other members of the 30th were transferred to the 15th Bn as replacements following the Battle of 2nd Ypres. Private Butler was killed shortly afterward during the Battle of Festubert.
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Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH Private Butler originally enlisted with the 30th (British Columbia) Bn. He along with 300 other members of the 30th were transferred to the 15th Bn as replacements following the Battle of 2nd Ypres. Private Butler was killed shortly afterward during the Battle of Festubert.
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Cap Badge 30th Bn (British Columbia). Private Butler was a member of the 30th Bn before being sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcementshortly after the Battle of 2nd Ypres. Submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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The Memorial at Festubert France was unveilded and dedicated on 23 Oct 2011 to commemorate the actions of the 15th Battalion CEF (48th Highlanders of Canada) on 20 May 1915 during the Battle of Festubert. Photo by BGen (ret) G Young and submitted by Capt (ret) V Goldman of the 15th Battalion Memorial Project.
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Record of Service Card (front side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Record of Service Card (reverse side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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From the London Free Press June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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