Name: Frederick Clayton Boutilier Rank: Technician Fourth Grade (Sergeant) Service Number: 31219544 Service: 497th Coastal Artillery Battalion (AA [Anti Aircraft]) Date of Birth: April 20, 1920 Place of Birth: Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine Date of Enlistment: January 14, 1943 Place of Enlistment: Portland, Cumberland County, Maine Address at Enlistment: Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine Age at Enlistment: 22 Height: 5 feet, 7 inches Marital Status: Single Date of Death: June 14, 1945 Age at Death: 25 Cemetery: Forest Hill Cemetery, Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine Frederick Clayton Boutilier was the son of Clyde Benjamin Boutilier (1899-1961) and Thelma Almeda (Paine) Boutilier Briggs (1901-1987), and the brother of Benjamin C Boutilier (1923-1973), Josephine B Boutilier (1925-1984), Jerald Frank Boutilier (1932-1999), Murton P Boutilier (1932-1955), Burton P Boutilier (1934- 1936), Jacqueline Joanne Boutilier (1936-2022), and Rodger Thomas Boutilier (1937-1998). Frederick’s father was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His mother was born in Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine. His father served as a Chief Engine Room Artificer in the Royal Canadian Navy during WWII. Fred’s brother Corporal Jerald Frank Boutilier in the US Army in Korean and went on to serve as a police detective, Captain, and Director of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation with the Maine State Police. Frederick’s brother Rodger also served in the US Army. Frederick was born in Bridgton, Maine but by 1930 he was living his grandparents Edmund J. and Jennie M. Fleury in Chicopee, Hampden Co., Massachusetts. By 1935, Frederick and his grandmother were living in Putnam, Windham, Connecticut, and he was working as a cloth finisher at a woolen mill. Frederick’s family remember him as a great man who was selfless, popular, and intelligent. Before enlisting, Frederick worked as a skilled pattern and model maker in milling. He joined the Army in Portland, Maine, on January 14, 1943, and was inducted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, on January 18th. During his service, Frederick served as a cook and was promoted to Tech Sergeant Fourth Grade on July 9, 1943, while stationed at Fort Polk (now Fort Johnson) near Leesville, Louisiana. Three months later in September 1943, he was admitted to military hospital at Fort Polk. Diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma). He was discharged due to his disability from the military three months later in Hot Springs, Arkansas on December 18, 1943. Frederick Clayton Boutilier died of illness, lymphoma, in New York on June 14, 1945, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx, New York City. His death record indicated his occupation was shipyard worker. Frederick’s body was returned to his home state of Massachusetts, and he is interred at the Forest Hill Cemetery in his hometown of Bridgton, Cumberland Co., Maine.

Sources: findagrave Liam Opie (Great Great Nephew of Frederick Boutilier)