Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Glenn
96th (Canadian Highlanders) Battalion

Col. Glenn’s record in the House has been excellent. A quiet man, and not to be considered in any sense one of the orators of the House, he has nevertheless contributed not a little to its progressive spirit …

Col. Glenn is overseas now. He took over a fine battalion of men. When he found that he was unable to get into the trenches in the capacity of a commanding officer he managed somehow to revert to the rank of Lieutenant and as lieutenant he is in the trenches today. How he managed it will remain probably a military secret. He is not a young man by any means but he is doing his duty in a way that shames many a young man in Canada.

(Saskatoon Daily Star, 20 Jun 1917, 4)

Joseph Glenn was the Conservative member for South Qu’Appelle in the Saskatchewan legislature from 1912 to 1921. Born on 29 August 1860 in Owen Sound, Canada West, he moved to the North West Territories during the early 1880s. Settling in Indian Head, he built a farm, imported horses, worked in the lumber trade, acted as the local mail carrier and operated a grain elevator. During the 1885 Rebellion, he volunteered as a dispatch rider for General Middleton and Major Sam Steele.

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