Canloan Officers

Interesting photo...man next to Scot-Brown is wearing Canadian wings so perhaps the caption is suspect......the only Brown on the 1st Para Btn roll for Arnhem is the Quartermaster.......anyone confirm he was the QM......

Leo Heaps was also Canadian but not sure if he was CANLOAN or not......

Paul,

In answer to your question I think one of the KOSB officers is still alive.....perhaps Maurice K.....

 

AIRBORNE MEDIC "the only Brown on the 1st Para Btn roll for Arnhem is the Quartermaster.......anyone confirm he was the QM......".
Yes he was Who was who, confirms it mate. Although having looked here is this the same Brown World War II unit histories & officers Brown,
Thomas

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A/RQMS
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Lt. QM
02.06.1943 [291226] (reld < 04.1946)
02.06.1943


commissioned, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
(09.1944)


Quartermaster, HQ Company, 1st Parachute Battalion (

 

Perhpas my question was badly worded...was this Scot-Brown the QM of 1st Btn???

 

Perhpas my question was badly worded...was this Scot-Brown the QM of 1st Btn???
Which is why I questioned myself as its Thomas Brown, both who was who and the link I pasted are this Brown.Also in Randy's link about the Canloan officers association, in post 4 there are no Browns listed serving in the 1st Airborne Divison.

 

AIRBORNE MEDIC "the only Brown on the 1st Para Btn roll for Arnhem is the Quartermaster.......anyone confirm he was the QM......".
Yes he was Who was who, confirms it mate. Although having looked here is this the same Brown World War II unit histories & officers Brown,
Thomas

?
-
A/RQMS
?
Lt. QM
02.06.1943 [291226] (reld < 04.1946)
02.06.1943


commissioned, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
(09.1944)


Quartermaster, HQ Company, 1st Parachute Battalion (

Owen,
This cannot be the CANLOAN officer as to the best of my knowledge they were already commissioned in Canada and this guy has done the usual QM route.......hopefully without upsetting too many people, the evidence of this Scot-Brown being at Arnhem seems a bit flimsy....he is not on the 1st Btn order of battle for Arnhem as far as I can see, but I will happily amend this view if some further evidence comes to light.....

 

Hi All,

Here's one for you all Jim Taylor taken in 2005 I think...

Cheers
Tom

 

Jim Taylor, taken September 2009, sadly his last visit to Oosterbeek, he died 5th January 2010,

regards lofty

 

Name:BOX, VERNON ERIC
Initials:V E
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Lieutenant
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment:Royal Scots Fusiliers
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 6th Bn.
Age:32
Date of Death:22/02/1945
Service No:CDN/331
Additional information:Son of Leonard C. and Gertrude E. Box; husband of Dorothy Sprague Box, of Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:XII. H. 12.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Name:COCHRANE, JAMES
Initials:J
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Lieutenant
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment:Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Secondary Unit Text: attd
Age:28
Date of Death:24/03/1945
Service No:CDN/409
Awards:M C
Additional information:Son of James and Isabel Cochrane, of Milliken, Ontario.
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:IV. H. 2.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Name:COX, HUBERT CHARLES
Initials:H C
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Lieutenant
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment: Devonshire Regiment
Secondary Unit Text:attd.
Age:25
Date of Death:24/03/1945
Service No:CDN/204
Additional information:Husband of Gladys Cox, of Stratford, Ontario.
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:IV. H. 1.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Name:HARRISON, JOHN ROBERT
Initials:J R
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Captain
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment:Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Secondary Unit Text:attd. 7th Bn
Age:22
Date of Death:17/04/1945
Service No:CDN/80
Additional information:Son of William and Anna Harrison, of Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:IV. H. 9.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Name:HEALD, CLARENCE FOSTER
Initials:C F
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Lieutenant
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment: Devonshire Regiment
Secondary Unit Text:attd
Age:23
Date of Death:31/03/1945
Service No:CDN/414
Additional information:Son of Joseph Ernest Foster Heald, and of Clara Heald, of London, Ontario.
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:XII. G. 16.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Name:HEMELRYK, JOSEPH
Initials:J
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Major
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment:Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
Secondary Unit Text:attd. 1st Bn. The Glasgow Highlanders
Age:33
Date of Death:14/04/1945
Service No:CDN/4
Awards:M C
Additional information:Son of Lt.-Col. George Edward Hemelryk, O.B.E., J.P., and Elizabeth Mary Hemelryk, of Dyserth, Flintshire, Wales.
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:IV. F. 11.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Name:LAURIE, JOHN ALFRED
Initials:J A
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Lieutenant
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment:Royal Norfolk Regiment
Secondary Unit Text:attd. 1st Bn.
Age:25
Date of Death:16/04/1945
Service No:CDN/171
Awards:M C
Additional information:Son of William Arthur and Alexandra Laurie; husband of T. E. Laurie, of Chatham, Ontario.
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:IV. H. 10.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Name:MATTHEW, JOHN BRENTON
Initials:J B
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Lieutenant
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment:Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
Secondary Unit Text:attd. 2nd Bn. The Glasgow Highlanders
Age:24
Date of Death:27/03/1945
Service No:CDN/349
Additional information:Son of John Brenton Matthew and Ruth Crosley Matthew, of Souris, Prince Edward Island. B. Com. (Dalhousie).
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:IV. F. 5.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Name:PAPE, JOHN CHARLES
Initials:J C
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Lieutenant
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment:Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 7th Bn.
Age:25
Date of Death:07/04/1945
Service No:CDN/487
Additional information:Son of John Andrew and Frances Pape; husband of Velma Jeanne Pape, of Edmonton, Alberta.
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:IV. H. 8.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

 

Rob,

Great pics.
Thanks for sharing.

Another great book that may be of interest is
" A Canloan Officer " by R.F. Fendick who served with the Middlesex Regiment.
ISBN978-1-84791-187-2

Cheers,
Randy

 

The last one from this cemetery.

All from the Sanguinius Set on Flikr.

Name:RODGER, ANDERSON
Initials:A
Nationality:Canadian
Rank:Lieutenant
Regiment/Service:Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Regiment:Gordon Highlanders
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 1st Bn.
Age:31
Date of Death:24/03/1945
Service No:CDN/429
Additional information:Son of William Kirkland Rodger and Agnes Rodger; husband of Mariette M. Rodger, of Fort William, Ontario. B.A., Barrister.
Casualty Type:Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:IV. H. 3.
Cemetery:HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY