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Douglas Ambrose Mark Butler
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Constable

Douglas Ambrose Mark Butler

Royal Canadian Mounted Police — Ottawa, ON
Undetermined
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End of Watch October 16, 1982
Age 21
The Vigil Panel 278 · Column 2 · Line 8 ›
Gender Male
Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 317

Incident

Son of Harold and Margaret Butler, Cst. Butler was born in Newfoundland. He attended Memorial University in St. John’s for a year and then went to the College of Trades and Technology at Carbonear where he took a mechanic’s course. Cst. Butler was posted to Milestone, SK and then to Carnduff, Saskatchewan. He was killed in a motor vehicle accident while on duty near Oxbow, Saskatchewan. Constable Douglas Ambrose Mark Butler Inscription on Grave marker Photo of DOUGLAS AMBROSE MARK BUTLER

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Constable Ambrose Mark Butler served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Constable Ambrose Mark Butler.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Type Federal Police
Location Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
Platform Identity rcmp.fed.ca.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 16, 1982
Age 21
Gender Male
Born December 13, 1960

Incident Details

Cause Undetermined
Incident Location Oxbow, SK

The Sacrifice · Undetermined

Douglas is one of 308 officers lost to causes not yet determined in Canada, 77.2% of the 399 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1982, 2 officers in Canada were lost to causes not yet determined, the 51st heaviest of 109 years on record. The heaviest was 1958, with 10.

Every year on record · Canada
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Who

Douglas was 21. Of the 284 lost to causes not yet determined in Canada whose age is recorded, half were between 26 and 41; the middle age was 32.

Age at death
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Age by years of service
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When

October holds 9.1% of these deaths in Canada; June holds the most, 11%. Saturdays: 16.6%.

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How

Undetermined deaths account for 77.2% of all 399 deaths in Canada, the most common cause.

Every cause
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His people

Royal Canadian Mounted Police has at least 120 officers remembered here, Douglas among them.

Across the years
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Where

Oxbow, SK

Constable Douglas Ambrose Mark Butler

Royal Canadian Mounted Police · End of Watch October 16, 1982

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