Detail victim

Name BOTTERELL
Initials ES
First name EDWARD SIMPSON
Place of birth Ottawa
Country Ontario, Canada
Family Son of Henry H. and Annie Botterell, of Woodroffe, Ontario; single
Profession salesman
Extra info His younger brother served as a fighter pilot and survived. He died at the age of 106 and was the last known surviving pilot of the Great War.

Place & date of enlistment September 1914, Valcartier
Rank Captain
Regiment and unit 15th Bn. Central Ontario Regiment (48th Highlanders)
Other data related to military career Enrolled as a private soldier; Sgt ES Botterell departed the Battalion on 27 Sept 1915 for cadet school; Lt Botterell was loaned to the 13th Bn (Royal Highlanders of Montreal) when the Brigade, to which both the 15th and the 13th Battalions belonged, was back in the Ypres salient; May 1916 appointed OC (Officer Commanding) No. 3 Company.

Type of wounds Shot by a sniper while in the front line trenches of his company. He passed a gap in the trenches and was struck.
Date of death 26 June 1916
Died at the age of 23
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - A - 39