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Chief Warrant Officer Richard George Buxton

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Military service

Service number: V57 712 337
Age: 45
Rank: Chief Warrant Officer
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Airborne Regiment
Birth: April 21, 1926 Victoria, British Columbia
Enlistment: May 23, 1944 British Columbia
Death: July 30, 1971 Edmonton, Alberta

Burial/memorial information

EDMONTON (BEECHMOUNT) CEMETERY
Grave reference: Grave 1, Block 290
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Son of Percy Herbert 'Titch' and Phoebe Mildred Buxton of Victoria, British Columbia. Brother of Frank, David, Keneth, William, Fred, James, Leslie, Phoebe, Hazel, Phyllis, Patricia, Doris and June. Husband of Orion Faye (nee Taylor) Buxton and father of Richard Frederick, Stephen James and Frederick Gary Buxton of Edmonton, Alberta.

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Service in Canada (1867 – present)

EDMONTON (BEECHMOUNT) CEMETERY Alberta, Canada

During the 1939-1945 War, Canadian Infantry troops were stationed at Edmonton. No.13 Vocational Training School was set up and the airfield formed a link in the North-West Staging Route. Most of the war graves lie in Blocks 206 and 208. The cemetery also contains a Cross of Sacrifice. There are now 5 First World War and over 70 Second World War casualties commemorated in this site.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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