Murray Anderson Butler               Updated:  23 AUG 2019

Airman: a029001.htm Surname: Butler Init: M A Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 42

P_link: p008.htm Plane: BFO L9810 Operation: Not DK / G Crash_site: The North Sea.

Crash_d: d210640 Buried_d: b270840 C_link: c029.htm At_Next: Hjardemål Klit

"I forbindelse med et bombeangreb på det tyske slagskib "Scharnhorst", der efter at have fået svære skader i en træfning ved Nordnorge den 8. juni 1940 havde sat kursen mod syd, blev et Beaufort fly fra RAF ramt og styrtede i havet.
Flyets navigatør, M.A. Butler blev sidst i august 1940 fundet på Madsbøl Strand i Hjardemål Klit." (FAF) Butler må være fundet omkring her omkring 2,5 km nordvest for kirken. Han blev begravet på Hjardemål Klit Kirkegård den 27. august 1940. Søg Scharnhorst i Google for at se mere.

Pilot Officer (Navigator) Murray Anderson Butler, 27 år, var søn af Floyd Allison Butler og
Isabelle Mignonette Butler, Newcastle, Ontario, Canada. (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra BFO L9810 blev 1 flyver begravet i Hjardemål Klit Kirkegård, 1 i Haugesund i Norge og
2 har ingen kendt grav. 4 flyvere.

"In connection with a bombing raid on the German battle ship "Scharnhorst", which after
having had severe damages in an engagement at the northern part of Norway on 8 June 1940
had set course south, a Beaufort plane from the RAF was hit and crashed into the sea.

In the last days of August Navigator M.A. Butler was found on Madsbøl Beach in Hjardemål Klit." (FAF) Butler must have been found about 2.5 km northwest of the church. He was buried in
Hjardemål Klit Churchyard on 27 August 1940.
Pilot Officer (Navigator) Murray Anderson Butler, 27, was the son of Floyd Allison Butler and Isabelle Mignonette Butler, of Newcastle, Ontario, Canada.
(Source: CWGC) Search Scharnhorst in Google for more.
Inscription: English airman M.A. Butler washed ashore 1940. He died so that others might live in freedom. In gratitude to God for the liberty of Denmark
and to this airman and his brothers in arms the residents of the Parish of Hjardemaal erected this memorial after the liberation in 1945.

This Bristol Beaufort was from RAF Coastal Command. See  No. 42 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Traces of World War 2 RAF No. 42 Squadron.
Beaufort I L9810 AW-M took off from RAF Wick at 14.21 hrs. on 21 JUN 1940 to attack the Scharnhorst.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this and Archive Report.)                                                    4 airmen.