Died on active Service:

Butch was just a stray dog.

He attached himself somehow or other to the S.S.R. soon after it was mobilized in Weyburn in September, 1939, and was in training there that winter.

The boys liked Butch. He went on route marches with them, considered every man in khaki his friend.

He was so friendly that he used to make a tour of the barracks, jump on beds to awaken late sleepers in the morning.

The boys liked Butch so much that they had his picture taken, printed on postcards, and they sent the cards to relatives and freinds far and near.

The the S.S.R. moved out of Weyburn for service.

They couldn't take Butch.

He had friends in the men of the cleanup party which was left behind, but they knew he was slowly dying of loneliness.

Then one day Butch fell under one of the cleanup party's trucks and was killed.