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A member of one of Canada’s most distinguished military families, Lieutenant-General William Alexander Beaumont Anderson, was born in Montreal, 7 May 1915.  His father, the late Major-General W. B. Anderson, CMG, DSO of Ottawa, was a former Commander of Military District No. 3.  His uncle, Major-General T. V. Anderson, DSO, was Chief of the General […]

One of The Royal Regiment’s brilliant technical proponents, Major-General Harold Oswald Neville Brownfield, was born in Englewood, New Jersey, in December 1894.  He was educated in Kingston, Ontario, and subsequently attended the Royal Military College.  After graduation, in 1910, he became an instructor with The Royal Canadian Horse Artillery and The Royal School of Artillery

Born in Quebec, he graduated from Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville.  He was commissioned a Provisional Lieutenant, 29 October 1889, at the Royal Military College of Canada. In March 1898, he served with the Yukon Field Force, arriving in Wrangell, 6 May 1898.  The arduous 400-mile trip to Fort Selkirk was completed by 11 September, followed

One of Canada’s greatest wartime commanders, General Crerar was born and educated in Hamilton, Ontario.  Graduating from the Royal Military College in 1909, he took a position with the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, Toronto. At the outbreak of the Great War, he was a Lieutenant in Toronto’s 4th Battery, 2nd Brigade, the Non-Permanent Active Militia.  He

Arthur Currie was born, 5 December 1875, near Strathroy, Ontario.  At the age of eighteen, he moved to Victoria.  He secured a position as a school teacher, later working in insurance and real estate. He joined the local Militia, serving first in the Artillery and then in the Infantry.  An energetic officer, he quickly rose