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A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

 

They made the Ultimate Sacrifice 

 

Edmund Arthur Button

 

Stoker 1st Class, V46458, RCNVR

 

Born:  27 Dec 1923, Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

Died: 03 Jul 1944 at sea

 

Book of Remembrance

 

BUTTON, Edmund Arthur, Sto 1c, V46458, RCNVR, MPK - 03 Jul 1944, MTB 460 - Son of Edward John and Lillian Button, Winnipeg, MB.

 

Sto 1c was Missing, Presumed Killed when his MTB struck a mine in the English Channel.

 

Ships served in:

HMCS CHIPPAWA - Enlisted 13 Jul 1942. Commenced Active Service 31 Jan 1943

MTB 460 - Drafted to MTB 460 on 04 Mar 1944

 

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(1) Newspaper article from the Winnipeg Evening Tribune reporting Sto Button as missing

(2-3) Certificate of Service - pages 1 and 2

(4) Report of Death

(5-6) Letters to Stoker Button's mother

 


 

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