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Wing Commander VERNON STANLEY BUTLER

Service Number: 37465
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

226 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 08 March 1942

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MARISSEL FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY

Grave 220.

France

COMMONWEALTH - FRENCH JOINT COMMITTEE PHOTOS, FRANCE - 23 MAY 2006: headstone of Wing Commander V S Butler, DFC, one of the Commonwealth graves in Marissel French National Cemetery at which respects were paid

Photographer: Claire Samber S&ERM

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel Flowers Butler and Lilian Hetty Butler; husband of Margaret Butler.
  • Personal Inscription NON SIBI SED PATRIAE
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Buried or commemorated at

MARISSEL FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
Oise France
Number of casualties: 177
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