Fallen Comrades (retired members)
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From The National Post:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/18/regular-dad-was-crack-wwii-code-breaker/
Quite a story!
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/05/18/regular-dad-was-crack-wwii-code-breaker/
Regular dad was crack WWII code breaker
P.E.I.’s Cliff Stewart, seen above at a 2010 air show, worked behind enemy lines during the Second World War
and honed his skills with the likes of Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond spy thrillers.
The National Post
Joe O'Connor
May 18, 2011
To his four kids, he was a regular dad with some irregular talents. Cliff Stewart could fix the family toaster in a blink. Radios, television sets, family cars — anything with wires that went on the fritz, and out came the tools.
“His ability to solve problems — his technical skills — he could always figure something out and make it work. He could literally fix anything,” said Tom Stewart, his eldest son.
To his family, Cliff Stewart was Dad, the super-whiz. But to his World War II comrades, Cliff Stewart was something else. Behind the extraordinary technical talents around the house was an extraordinary secret, a tale of intrigue and espionage that featured Mr. Stewart at the centre of it as a super spy and code breaker.
It was an occupation he never, ever, spoke about, not until the last years of a long life that ended when Mr. Stewart passed away at his home in suburban Charlottetown last weekend.
He was 91.
At his funeral Wednesday he will be remembered as a grandfather, a good friend, a colleague and loyal employee in the auto shop at D.C.D Auto Electric, a water-skiing coach and a volunteer fire captain.
Cliff Stewart
The national Post (Provided by the Stewart family)
But when he was 19, and a farm boy, and a budding ham-radio genius, two RCMP officers rapped on the door of the family homestead in Hampshire, P.E.I, and informed young Clifton that the British secret service was looking to recruit him. Even Mr. Stewart’s son isn’t entirely sure how his father came to their attention, but it was 1939, and he was cracker-smart and good with a ham radio and electronics.
So off the young Canadian went to the Rockefeller Center in New York, where a room full of handpicked, sworn-to-secrecy early electronics aces combined to build “Rock X.”
The gadget enabled high-ranking officials, such as U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to transmit high-volume encrypted messages to their British counterparts (think: Sir Winston Churchill).
Mr. Stewart’s next wartime stop was Camp X, a top-secret training facility in southern Ontario where he honed his craft with budding assassins, demolitions experts, frogmen, forgers, a man called Intrepid and Ian Fleming, a British naval intelligence trainee and future author of the James Bond books.
“It took quite a bit of training not to jump at a gunshot,” Mr. Stewart said in a 2009 documentary about his life. “It kept quite a lot of us alive. As the instructors told us, [the Germans] might not be shooting at you.”
And if they were not shooting at you, and you became spooked by the sound of gunfire and gave away your position, a nervous spy would be a dead spy.
Mr. Stewart took part in several missions behind enemy lines. A team of agents would parachute in to an appointed spot with the radio expert from P.E.I. hefting a briefcase containing a coding machine.
Information was gathered. Messages sent. And missions accomplished, or not. And the spies, those who came home in one piece, were bound by the British Secrets Act never to talk about it.
It was not until Mr. Stewart was in his 80s and his old comrades began dying in droves that he finally started relating juicy tidbits to his children about his previous life.
“You might be sitting down to supper and talking about something like parachuting, and if you would ever do it, and he would say something like: ‘You would never get me to jump out of a plane for fun,’ ” Tom Stewart says.
“And then he would start telling a story about being dropped behind enemy lines. I knew he had worked out of Camp X and in New York and San Francisco, but I never thought he was over in the field of engagement.
“He would tip his hand a bit, and you would see a glimpse, but he would never really give you much more than a glimpse.”
He was a spy, after all.
Camp X closed in 1949. Mr. Stewart was offered a job with the CIA but his wife, Hilda, had other ideas. The family returned home to Charlottetown where the ex-secret agent became just another blue-collar guy working at the Batt and McRae Auto Electric Company.
In civilian life he was free to show off, and delighted in water skiing — from a water start — with a lit cigar clamped in his teeth. Mr. Stewart kept working, tinkering and fixing cars for D.C.D. Auto Electric until past his 90th birthday. A volunteer firefighter, and a fire captain once upon a time, he drove the antique pumper in Charlottetown’s annual Santa Claus parade well into his 80s.
“In fact,” says his son. “The old pumper is going to be his funeral coach [on Wednesday]. He was a volunteer chief for a number of years.”
He was an ordinary man, with some extraordinary talents.
National Post
joconnor@nationalpost.com
Quite a story!
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Indeed quite the story:
From The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2011-05-16/article-2510306/Spy-from-PEI-Cliff-Stewart-dies/1
From Monday May 16, 2011, CBC As it Happens broadcast these notes:
http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/episode/2011/05/16/monday-may-16-2011/
(I was unable to find any audio.)
From The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2011-05-16/article-2510306/Spy-from-PEI-Cliff-Stewart-dies/1
'Spy from P.E.I.' Cliff Stewart dies
Published on May 16, 2011
Guardian photo by Brian McInnis
Cliff Stewart poses with a Lysander during an airshow in 2010. Stewart died Saturday in his Sherwood home at age 91.
Funeral Wednesday for Second World War veteran
Clifton Elmer Stewart, better known as Cliff, a Canadian spy recruited by the British during the Second World War, died over the weekend at his Sherwood home.
Known by his catchphrase, “the spy from P.E.I.,” Stewart was also the Sherwood fire chief for a number of years and a Holland College instructor.
Stewart, 91, died on Saturday, May 14.
His work during the Second World War was honoured by the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) during a fly-in event at Slemon Park in Summerside last summer.
One of the aircrafts, a restored Lysander that hadn’t been flown in 64 years, was dedicated to Stewart. It was the same style of plane he flew in during missions in the Second World War.
Flying into enemy territory, the plane would drop off Stewart, who would set up radio communications. The plane would turn around and Stewart would grab onto the aircraft’s moving strut, which would carry him back to safety.
The five or six trips in Europe on the Lysander, which Stewart described last summer, are the bulk of what little is known about Stewart’s missions. He was bound by an oath of secrecy under the British Secrets Act.
Tom Stewart, Cliff’s oldest son, said the air show and honour of the restored Lysander kept his father going throughout his final year.
“One of the things that got him through, was looking forward to that event in June,” he said. “He had a glow for the month after.”
But Stewart’s life didn’t begin or end with the Second World War.
He was born and raised in P.E.I., only leaving the province during the war years to live in New York and Camp X in Ontario.
He married Hilda Jewell in 1942 and, when he returned to P.E.I. in the late 1940s, he began working at the Batt and MacRae Auto Electric Company in Charlottetown.
He also became involved as a volunteer in the Sherwood Fire Department around the late 1950s, eventually becoming chief for more than 10 years throughout the 1970s and ’80s.
Stewart’s summers were often spent at a cottage he’d built in York Point.
Tom said his father could often be seen at the cottage, taking others for rides in his boat.
“I’d say there were probably 500 people who learned to water ski from him,” he said. “He had that boat since the 1970s and it’s found hundreds of people in it.”
His passion for boats led him to a volunteer job fixing watercrafts with Stu Smith.
Tom said his father was known for being a go-to guy when anything had to be fixed.
“Anything from radios to TVs to video recorders,” he said. “His nature was that, if anybody needed anything fixed, he was the person people came to. It seemed he could fix anything.”
Stewart’s passion for fixing things led him to another job, where he showed others how to make repairs.
In the 1980s, past the age of 60, Stewart became an instructor in automotive and electrical repairs at Holland College.
Stewart kept working past retirement age and held a job at D.C.D. Auto Electric until just after turning 90.
Tom said his father loved to work and felt that staying active and the relationships he developed with co-workers are what kept him going.
“He loved life, he found being involved in things and other people’s lives, in terms of being able to help out.”
Stewart is resting at the Belvedere Funeral Home, where the funeral will be held on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.
Visitation is Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Memorial donations may be made to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Charlottetown Branch #1 of the Royal Canadian Legion will hold a service of remembrance at the funeral home Tuesday at 6:45 p.m.
From Monday May 16, 2011, CBC As it Happens broadcast these notes:
http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/episode/2011/05/16/monday-may-16-2011/
(I was unable to find any audio.)
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Gerry Haakmat, formerly of 744 (Vancouver) Communications Regiment was taken from us on June 2, 2011. Gerry is someone I am proud to have called friend and I know that he will be missed by a great many people.
http://www.legacy.com/can-vancouver/Obituaries.asp?page=lifestory&personid=151707069
http://youtu.be/9aXVov7Dfgs
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My old friend Don Ludlow, late The Royal Canadian Regiment and the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada passed away, suddenly.
LUDLOW, Major Donald Parker, CD 1934 - 2011 It is with great sadness that the Ludlow family announces the passing of Major (ret'd) Donald Parker Ludlow, CD, suddenly but peacefully at home on Wednesday 8 June 2011. Don was the dearly loved husband of Yvonne, father to Jennifer and Donald and brother of John Ludlow. Born in Nova Scotia, but raised a Newfoundlander, Don got his first taste of the Army with the cadets before joining the Royal Newfoundland Regiment as a young man. He joined The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada in 1956 until he rebadged to the Royal Canadian Regiment following Unification in 1971. Over a 35 year career Don served throughout Canada in many leadership and staff roles, including tours with the United Nations in Cyprus and the ICCS in Vietnam. Don's Regimental colleagues were his second family and he loved leading and working alongside the many fine soldiers, NCO's and officers he had the honour of serving with over the years. On retirement from the military, Don worked for 5 years with the Emergency Preparedness branch of Public Works and Government Services Canada. Full-time retirement saw him remain as busy as ever, enjoying fun and challenging work with the Conservative Party of Canada, his Regimental fraternity and St. John's Anglican Church in Kanata, Ontario. To know Donald Parker Ludlow was to know a fine officer, a true gentleman, a kind heart and brave soul. Friends may attend a memorial service at St. John's Anglican Church, 325 Sandhill Road, Kanata on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11 a.m. In remembrance donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated. Condolences, donations or tributes may be made at www.tubmanfuneralhomes.com
Don was a "happy warrior" of the old school - he was never a careerist but he lived a good, honest and honourable military career, always doing his best to serve his country, his soldiers and his Regiments. I will miss him.
LUDLOW, Major Donald Parker, CD 1934 - 2011 It is with great sadness that the Ludlow family announces the passing of Major (ret'd) Donald Parker Ludlow, CD, suddenly but peacefully at home on Wednesday 8 June 2011. Don was the dearly loved husband of Yvonne, father to Jennifer and Donald and brother of John Ludlow. Born in Nova Scotia, but raised a Newfoundlander, Don got his first taste of the Army with the cadets before joining the Royal Newfoundland Regiment as a young man. He joined The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada in 1956 until he rebadged to the Royal Canadian Regiment following Unification in 1971. Over a 35 year career Don served throughout Canada in many leadership and staff roles, including tours with the United Nations in Cyprus and the ICCS in Vietnam. Don's Regimental colleagues were his second family and he loved leading and working alongside the many fine soldiers, NCO's and officers he had the honour of serving with over the years. On retirement from the military, Don worked for 5 years with the Emergency Preparedness branch of Public Works and Government Services Canada. Full-time retirement saw him remain as busy as ever, enjoying fun and challenging work with the Conservative Party of Canada, his Regimental fraternity and St. John's Anglican Church in Kanata, Ontario. To know Donald Parker Ludlow was to know a fine officer, a true gentleman, a kind heart and brave soul. Friends may attend a memorial service at St. John's Anglican Church, 325 Sandhill Road, Kanata on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11 a.m. In remembrance donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated. Condolences, donations or tributes may be made at www.tubmanfuneralhomes.com
Don was a "happy warrior" of the old school - he was never a careerist but he lived a good, honest and honourable military career, always doing his best to serve his country, his soldiers and his Regiments. I will miss him.
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RIP Mr. Ludlow; Pro Patria 
I just received a short notice via the regimental net of the passing of Colonel (ret) JP (Jake) Beer in Victoria. Jake had served in NWE in the 12th Field Regiment, attended the British Gunnery Staff Course circa 1947-1948 and then served in Korea with the 81st Field Regiment. He commanded 2 RCHA 1961-1965 in Winnipeg and Germany and then was Chief of Artillery at FMCHQ until his retirement. Jake was a gentleman and cheerful by nature. I first met him in November 1961 when we both were students on the Nuclear Target Analysis Course. He was the senior student as a LCol and I was the junior student (2Lt) and security officer responsible for rounding up and securing the classified reference material at the end of each day. Despite the differences in rank, he treated the rest of the course as classmates and not as inferior beings, something that was rather unusual in those days.
Further to my last, the folowing has been received on the regimental net:
Colonel Beer enjoyed a long and distinguished career serving the Canada and the Guns, including outstanding service during war and peace including WW2 and Korea and the Cold War.
Col Beer served with distinction during WW2 and Korea and in a number of extremely important post war appointments including IG duties at the School of Artillery CFB Shilo, various Regimental positions culminating in command of 2 RCHA. He took command of 2RCHA under very difficult circumstances. The Regt had been banned from live firing because of a number of training incidents. The previous CO suffered a fatal heart attack while on a regimental parade and collapsed and died right after getting off parade. 2RCHA was scheduled for the next rotation to Germany in 2 years. Col Beer led his regt through a training program that re-established it as an operational regt and then took it to Germany where he commanded it for another 2 years for a total of 4 years.
His appointment as Chief of Artillery at FMCHQ and NDHQ was noteworthy in that Colonel Jake Beer was the last officer designated Chief of Artillery, since to this day the appointment is titled Director of Artillery. He was Chief of Arty during the very difficult, early days of unification and, for part of his time as CArty, there were no serving gunner generals so he was fighting alone. He lost some battles (e.g., Air OPs went to the air force, was forced to buy the Italian pack how), but he also won some major victories (e.g., retained IG, A/IG and Master Gunner courses) following this be was appointed COS Pacific Militia Area when that headquarters was stationed at CFB Esquimalt.
On retirement from the CF and the COS PMA appointment Colonel Beer then went on to serve as the Honorary Colonel 5 (BC) Fd Bty for a number of years. After retiring as HLCol of 5 Bty, he was asked to be a presenter at the annual RCA Jr Offr's Training at the Home Station. He did this for several years until his failing eye sight made it virtually impossible. He continued his civic involvement on the Board of the Victoria and Vancouver Island Corps of Commissionaires and Commandant of the Vernon Cadet Camp. Also for years, he volunteered at the Victoria Hospice helping terminally ill patients. He finally had to stop that because of back problems and failing eye sight. However, he has now become a volunteer peer counsellor for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and has organized and presented their orientation program for the newly blind.
Colonel Beer enjoyed a long and distinguished career serving the Canada and the Guns, including outstanding service during war and peace including WW2 and Korea and the Cold War.
Col Beer served with distinction during WW2 and Korea and in a number of extremely important post war appointments including IG duties at the School of Artillery CFB Shilo, various Regimental positions culminating in command of 2 RCHA. He took command of 2RCHA under very difficult circumstances. The Regt had been banned from live firing because of a number of training incidents. The previous CO suffered a fatal heart attack while on a regimental parade and collapsed and died right after getting off parade. 2RCHA was scheduled for the next rotation to Germany in 2 years. Col Beer led his regt through a training program that re-established it as an operational regt and then took it to Germany where he commanded it for another 2 years for a total of 4 years.
His appointment as Chief of Artillery at FMCHQ and NDHQ was noteworthy in that Colonel Jake Beer was the last officer designated Chief of Artillery, since to this day the appointment is titled Director of Artillery. He was Chief of Arty during the very difficult, early days of unification and, for part of his time as CArty, there were no serving gunner generals so he was fighting alone. He lost some battles (e.g., Air OPs went to the air force, was forced to buy the Italian pack how), but he also won some major victories (e.g., retained IG, A/IG and Master Gunner courses) following this be was appointed COS Pacific Militia Area when that headquarters was stationed at CFB Esquimalt.
On retirement from the CF and the COS PMA appointment Colonel Beer then went on to serve as the Honorary Colonel 5 (BC) Fd Bty for a number of years. After retiring as HLCol of 5 Bty, he was asked to be a presenter at the annual RCA Jr Offr's Training at the Home Station. He did this for several years until his failing eye sight made it virtually impossible. He continued his civic involvement on the Board of the Victoria and Vancouver Island Corps of Commissionaires and Commandant of the Vernon Cadet Camp. Also for years, he volunteered at the Victoria Hospice helping terminally ill patients. He finally had to stop that because of back problems and failing eye sight. However, he has now become a volunteer peer counsellor for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and has organized and presented their orientation program for the newly blind.
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RIP Col Beer
He sounds like a very interesting officer.
He sounds like a very interesting officer.
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RIP, Sir
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http://www.armycadethistory.com/Vernon%20photo%20gallery/biography_Col_Jake_Beer.htm
Biography
Col John Pope 'Jake' Beer, MBE, CD
Born on Feb. 20, 1920 in Charlottetown, P.E.I. While attending high school he joined, in 1937, the 8th Medium Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery (militia) as a gunner. Mobilized in Sept. 1939. For some months they continued to wear their prewar uniforms, including bandoleers, putties, etc. He was commissioned in Feb. 1940 and proceeded overseas in Aug. of that year to Borden, Hampshire, as a reinforcement officer. After four weeks promoted to lieutenant and posted to 1st Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (1 R.C.H.A.) (Guy Simonds) where he and five others failed Simonds' artillery examination. He was immediately posted to the 11th Army Field Regiment where he remained until June 1942. After a heavy training regime -- gun position officer, command post officer, etc. -- he was promoted to captain and transferred to the 12th Field Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division.
On D-Day Beer was a battery captain (second-in-command), directly responsible for administration and supply ("A" Echelon). Landed in Normandy with the second wave. Recounts forward observation officers' position with the infantry. His battery was accidentally bombed by our own Air Force and was out of action for twenty-four hours until new personnel, trucks, and guns were received. The 12th Field Regiment supported attacks on the channel ports. In more serious fighting at Leopold Canal he was again a forward observation officer with the Regina Rifles. Their bridgehead across the canal was, for a day or two, about fifty by two hundred yards in size. The early winter of 1944/1945 was fairly quiet. Promoted to major, the officer commanding a French Canadian battery from Shawinigan Falls (81st Battery, 14th Field Regiment). In Feb. the Reichswald was attacked: heavy fighting in flooded conditions. Later, the Rhine crossing. At the end of the war he assisted in disarming the German troops. Returned to Holland where difficulties were experienced in keeping the Canadians occupied for several months; classroom education was a partial answer. Returned to Canada in Dec. 1945. Joined the Interim Force as a battery commander at Petawawa. Reverted to captain in 1946. Transferred to Camp Shilo, Man. which, in the early days, was not a pleasant place to live. In Dec. 1946 he was sent to England on the long gunnery staff course. Immediate postwar England was a place of serious shortages; uncomfortable for a family. He returned to Camp Shilo as an instructor in gunnery. Promoted to major in 1950. That year the artillery began to change to American equipment. In the early 1950's Beer spent one year at the army staff college, Kingston, and from there was appointed second-in-command of the 81st Field Regiment at Petawawa where the regiment was in training for service in Korea. They were there for only three months before the war ended, but the unit performed very well. Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Posted as Canadian representative at the Korean Armistice Commission meetings.
In 1954 he was sent as a staff officer to the War Office in London for three years. It was a slightly awkward situation for a Canadian during the Suez war. As a lieutenant-colonel in 1957 he was on the instructional staff at the army staff college for the usual three-year appointment. After that, he was posted to the International Control Commission in Saigon. Seven months later he was called home to command 2 R.C.H.A. which he did for a period of three years in Canada and one year in Germany. The regiment was a large unit: five batteries and an Air Observation Post (Air O.P.) flight. Initially the regiment was not in a good state of training or morale. He explains the later excellent training in Germany. For a short time he attended the NATO Defence College in Paris. Promoted to colonel and Chief of Artillery, Mobile Command in Canada, a position he held for four years. Appointed Canadian faculty advisor at the NATO Defence College in Rome for three years. Arranged and conducted European and overseas tours. Chief of staff, militia headquarters, Victoria, 1972-75. Retired in 1975. Commanded Vernon Army Cadet Camp in the summer for a subsequent four years.
I met him when I was a staff cadet at Vernon in the 70s RIP Sir!
Biography
Col John Pope 'Jake' Beer, MBE, CD
Born on Feb. 20, 1920 in Charlottetown, P.E.I. While attending high school he joined, in 1937, the 8th Medium Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery (militia) as a gunner. Mobilized in Sept. 1939. For some months they continued to wear their prewar uniforms, including bandoleers, putties, etc. He was commissioned in Feb. 1940 and proceeded overseas in Aug. of that year to Borden, Hampshire, as a reinforcement officer. After four weeks promoted to lieutenant and posted to 1st Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (1 R.C.H.A.) (Guy Simonds) where he and five others failed Simonds' artillery examination. He was immediately posted to the 11th Army Field Regiment where he remained until June 1942. After a heavy training regime -- gun position officer, command post officer, etc. -- he was promoted to captain and transferred to the 12th Field Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division.
On D-Day Beer was a battery captain (second-in-command), directly responsible for administration and supply ("A" Echelon). Landed in Normandy with the second wave. Recounts forward observation officers' position with the infantry. His battery was accidentally bombed by our own Air Force and was out of action for twenty-four hours until new personnel, trucks, and guns were received. The 12th Field Regiment supported attacks on the channel ports. In more serious fighting at Leopold Canal he was again a forward observation officer with the Regina Rifles. Their bridgehead across the canal was, for a day or two, about fifty by two hundred yards in size. The early winter of 1944/1945 was fairly quiet. Promoted to major, the officer commanding a French Canadian battery from Shawinigan Falls (81st Battery, 14th Field Regiment). In Feb. the Reichswald was attacked: heavy fighting in flooded conditions. Later, the Rhine crossing. At the end of the war he assisted in disarming the German troops. Returned to Holland where difficulties were experienced in keeping the Canadians occupied for several months; classroom education was a partial answer. Returned to Canada in Dec. 1945. Joined the Interim Force as a battery commander at Petawawa. Reverted to captain in 1946. Transferred to Camp Shilo, Man. which, in the early days, was not a pleasant place to live. In Dec. 1946 he was sent to England on the long gunnery staff course. Immediate postwar England was a place of serious shortages; uncomfortable for a family. He returned to Camp Shilo as an instructor in gunnery. Promoted to major in 1950. That year the artillery began to change to American equipment. In the early 1950's Beer spent one year at the army staff college, Kingston, and from there was appointed second-in-command of the 81st Field Regiment at Petawawa where the regiment was in training for service in Korea. They were there for only three months before the war ended, but the unit performed very well. Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Posted as Canadian representative at the Korean Armistice Commission meetings.
In 1954 he was sent as a staff officer to the War Office in London for three years. It was a slightly awkward situation for a Canadian during the Suez war. As a lieutenant-colonel in 1957 he was on the instructional staff at the army staff college for the usual three-year appointment. After that, he was posted to the International Control Commission in Saigon. Seven months later he was called home to command 2 R.C.H.A. which he did for a period of three years in Canada and one year in Germany. The regiment was a large unit: five batteries and an Air Observation Post (Air O.P.) flight. Initially the regiment was not in a good state of training or morale. He explains the later excellent training in Germany. For a short time he attended the NATO Defence College in Paris. Promoted to colonel and Chief of Artillery, Mobile Command in Canada, a position he held for four years. Appointed Canadian faculty advisor at the NATO Defence College in Rome for three years. Arranged and conducted European and overseas tours. Chief of staff, militia headquarters, Victoria, 1972-75. Retired in 1975. Commanded Vernon Army Cadet Camp in the summer for a subsequent four years.
I met him when I was a staff cadet at Vernon in the 70s RIP Sir!
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RIP Sir.I met him via my mother by accident one day at our Cadet annual inspection when he was the HCol for 5 Fd - my mom was a 2RCHA base brat when he was CO (my dad was one of the gunners in D Bty and her dad was a Bomber with E Bty).
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