Lieutenant-Colonel Fred Jenner
27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment
A man is here to-day and to-morrow he is vanished: when he is taken away from our sight he is quickly out of our mind. Yet the men whose names appear on the Roll of Honour of the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment will never go from our memories. Those who died, whose lives passed like a shadow, are the men who are the real heroes of this Regiment.
(Jenner’s message in Roll of Honour, war diary, Jun 1945)
Born on 20 July 1909 in Elkhorn, Manitoba, Frederick Thomas Jenner was an accountant and auto dealer in Olds, Alberta. He mobilized with the Calgary Regiment as battalion adjutant and participated in the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942. He returned to Canada for general staff instruction and was assigned to the directorate of training. He went back overseas in November 1943 to be assigned to the Canadian Armoured Corps with First Canadian Army headquarters.
For his logistical work during the D-Day landers, Jenner was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire: “was mainly responsible for the large measure of success achieved in equipping Cdn Armd Formations prior to the Normandy Op. His keenness and untiring efforts engendered an extremely close bond between Regimental and Staff personnel, with the consequent mutual confidence so essential before an op of this nature.” He served as general staff officer with the armoured corps and then second-in-command of the Fort Garry Horse during the Normandy campaign.
In early February 1945, Jenner replaced Lieutenant-Colonel M.B.K. Gordon of the 27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment. He led the Sherbrookes for the remainder of the Northwest Europe campaign until July 1945 when he was recalled to Canada. Command passed to tank ace Major S.V. Radley-Walters, the final wartime commanding officer of the unit.
In 1949, Jenner succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Stoney Richardson in command of the King’s Own Calgary Regiment. He retired from the army at the rank of brigadier and died in Edmonton on 8 December 1976.
World War Graphic History 
Thank you for the bio. Fred Jenner was my dad’s cousin. I have pictures of him and his brother in uniform with their black tanker’s beret. I was unaware of his substantial service record.
Great Uncle Fred was a kind and outgoing man. He went on to own Jenner Motors in Red Deer and Edmonton. Here is a little history.https://www.reddeerexpress.com/columns/marking-the-centennial-of-chevrolet/
Gone but not forgotten.
Fred Jenner was my Dad’s brother. He served in the war with his younger brother Jack who was a Sergeant and was killed in 1943.