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Military service
Service number:
3231310
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Birth:
December 7, 1893
Dunmanway, Co. Cork
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. A. 35.
Additional information
Son of James and Clara Buttimer, of Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland.
Digital gallery of Private James Clarence Buttimer
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Photo of James C. Buttimer
Pte. James C. Buttimer, as a member of the Trinity Methodist Church in Toronto, was remembered in the "Trinity War Book" published by the church in 1921. -
Trinity War Book
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Burbank to Bytheway. Microform Sequence 16; Volume Number 31829_B016725. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 160. Page 841 of 926. -
Biography
Private James Buttimer nearly survived the end of WW 1. Just a few hours more were needed. An act of humanity got him killed. Under cover of darkness, he attempted to bring in a casualty from "no man's land" near the Mons outskirts. Suddenly, a nervous German machine gun crew opening up on him. He was killed instantly. He was buried in the Mons Communal Cemetery soon after the Armistice was declared. The Canadian Army provided a list, based on individual casualty reports, of casualties for Nov 10th which gave 34 KIA, 25 wounded, some subsequently died (a previous list gave 8 officers/49 ORs killed) with only one man killed on Nov 11th, 1918. On November 10 the 9th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery was in Ghlin. At 15:40 a shell burst on the 36th battery wounding Lieutenant Longworth who died a short time later at the dressing station.
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Private James Clarence Buttimer
Digital gallery of
Private James Clarence Buttimer
Digital gallery of
Private James Clarence Buttimer
Digital gallery of
Private James Clarence Buttimer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 378 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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