American citizen. Born U.S.A.
In Rouen Hospital
William Butler, of the Customs staff, received word Saturday morning that his son, Lance-Corpl. Leslie Butler, has been wounded in the thigh and is now in a Rouen hospital. Butler live at 11 Aylmer avenue, enlisted in the Winter of 1914 with the 18th Battalion. Shortly after the arrival of the unit he was taken ill with pneumonia. He did not fully recover until a short time ago, when he was sent to France.
Others who enlisted in Windsor reported wounded in the official casualty list issued at Ottawa Saturday morning are as follows: Ptes. A.M. Freeman[i] and J. Price, formerly of the 99th Battalion; Ptes. Jack Fisher and F. Thomas, formerly of the 33rd Battalion, and Sergt. Richard Drew, and Ptes. Frank Remington and Alfred G. Austin of Windsor.
[i] Unknown at this time.
Source: Windsor Star
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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