Lieutenant-Colonel Gerry Chubb
28th Armoured Regiment (B.C. Regiment)

Unshaven and covered with Booth’s blood I arose … to find the Corps Commander in his enormous armoured car staring—or is the word glaring—at me … I explained the situation and his reply was “Armoured regiment are never out of communication,” with which profound remark he drove away.

(Chubb to Reg Roy quoted in 1944: the Canadians in Normandy, 276)

Born on 16 July 1913 in Rossland, British Columbia, Arthur Gerald Chubb was a graduate of RMC and Permanent Force officer in the Lord Strathcona’s Horse since 1936. He attended the war staff college at Camberley, England before assignment back to Canada in 1943 on staff with RMC. He returned overseas to be brigade major of the 4th Armoured Brigade. During the Normandy campaign, on 14 August 1944, Chubb recovered the body of Brigadier Leslie Booth from the wreckage of his destroyed tank. A week earlier Lieutenant-Colonel D.G. Worthington of the 28th Armoured Regiment had been killed and at the end of the month Chubb became acting second-in-command.

When Worthington’s replacement, Lieutenant-Colonel C.E. Parish, fell ill in early November, Chubb assumed full command of the regiment. He led the BCRs over the next six months through the liberation of the Netherlands into the final invasion of Germany. He earned the D.S.O. and left the regiment after VE-Day to be assistant-adjutant and quartermaster in the army of occupation.

Following a general staff appointment to the staff college at Kingston, he served as commanding officer of the Lord Strathconas from 1947 to 1951. He ended a thirty-two-year army career with the rank of brigadier in 1968. Retiring to the Kingston area, he served an elected term as councillor and deputy-reeve in Pittsburgh Township from 1970 to 1974.

He died in Kingston on 2 July 1992.