Lieutenant-Colonel J. Aimé Biron
27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment
Fusiliers de Sherbrooke

Major Biron has always taken a great interest in the welfare of the men and he will be missed by everyone, perhaps more by the French elements of the Unit of which he was a representative.

(War diary, 30 Apr 1942)

Born on 9 July 1902 Coaticook, Quebec, Joseph Aimé Biron was a longtime militia member of Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke since 1920. He joined as a private and was commissioned in 1923. When the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment was formed in July 1940 from the amalgamation of the English and French Sherbrooke militia regiments, Biron became second-in-command under Lieutenant-Colonel M.W. McA’Nulty. In February 1942, following garrison duty in Newfoundland Biron assumed command of the bilingual unit when McA’Nulty went overseas for training in England.

In January 1942, the Sherbrookes had been converted to an armoured regiment, but with little to do and no equipment to train with discipline and morale suffered. Biron was replaced in April 1942 by Major J.C. Cave, a Permanent Force officer and former chief instructor at the army tank school. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, Biron took command of Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke, recently mobilized for home defence. He continued command of the regiment in the reserve army after the war.

Biron died in Sherbrooke, Quebec on 2 April 1976.