Lieutenant-Colonel J.G. Robertson
Regina Rifle Regiment
Canada can be assured that the English people and also the American forces have a high realization of the support by Canada to the war cause. Best of all, I may add, is the thorough respect for the Canadian fighters wherever they are found.
(Quoted in Regina Leader-Post, 9 Aug 1944, 3)
Born on 1 September 1890 in Churchville, Nova Scotia, John Gordon Robertson moved to Saskatchewan after graduating from McGill University with an agricultural degree and specialty in animal husbandry in 1912. He enlisted with the 195th Battalion in December 1915 and joined the 44th Battalion as a reinforcement officer in France a year later. He suffered a serious shell wound in March 1917 at Vimy Ridge, which left him hospitalized for a year. On return home, in 1919, he was appointed provincial livestock commissioner for Saskatchewan.
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