Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

Photo of WILLIAM GEORGE BUTSON – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Honour Roll – From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.

Roll of Honour – "This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable."

Photo of William Butson – From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008.

The Soldiers' Tower – The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen beside the Tower is that of William George Butson. After the Second World War, the names of 557 more men and women were carved in the Memorial Arch underneath the Tower. Photo: K. Parks.

Photo of William George Butson – William George Butson - graduation photo from Seaforth Collegiate Institute, circa 1912.

Photo of William George Butson – Lt. William George Butson, circa 1916