LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Samuel Leslie BUTTERFIELD DFM
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 563441 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 213 Squadron (RAF)
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal (DFM)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 213 Squadron Hurricane I aircraft P3789), English Channel, 11 August 1940, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas De Calais, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Samuel Harold and Evelyn Butterfield; husband of Dorothy Louise Butterfield, of Windsor
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
While on patrol on 11 August 1940, Sergeant Butterfield in Hurricane P3789 was shot down at 1100 hours off Portland.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Franks, Norman L R Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World war Volume 1 Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1941, Midland Publishing Leicester UK, 1997