LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Lionel Paul BUTTERY
Service No: 27036
Born: Sydney NSW, 20 June 1908
Enlisted in the RAAF: 9 July 1940 (at Adelaide SA)
Unit: No. 3 Air Observers School, Port Pirie SA
Died: Illness, Adelaide, 29 June 1945, Aged 37 Years
Buried: Adelaide (Centennial Park) Cemetery, SA
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James and Leonie Queenie Buttery; husband of Kathleen Lena Buttery, of Kensington Park
Roll of Honour: Burnside SA
Remembered: Panel 115, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
On the 15 May 1945, Corporal Buttery, a Cook, was admitted to No 7 RAAF Hospital seriously ill from Bronchial Pneumonia. He died at 2130 hours on 29 June 1945 from multiple abscesses and Empyema.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/6/1126