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Trained in Canada
58 OTU April 1941
Assigned to 122 Squadron RAF June 1941. 122 Sqn was just being established, taking on pilots and airframes.
122 Squadron was getting ready to redeploy forward when Butler was injured on the ground and lost his flight medical status. He repatriated back to Canada with a new English bride, recovered well enough to reinstate his flight medical status.
Butler was then based with 132 Squadron RCAF in Patricia Bay, Victoria, British Columbia, flying Kittyhawks.
Butler was on a three ship patrol near Victoria when the flight flew into fog, and two aircraft collided, killing both pilots.
F/L Butler is buried in Nanaimo with a Commonwealth War Grave headstone.
When he was killed he left behind his new wife and unborn daughter, and his Mother in Nanaimo.
He had approximately 140 hours of operational Spitfire time.
