Lieutenant-Colonel Andy Law
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

Every man worked as a member of a team. They showed such coolness and determination as I have ever seen … However, we had to leave a lot of casualties behind as we were caught by machine-gun fire. It was remarkable so many got away and we lost a good many friends.

(Law to wife, quoted in Winnipeg Tribune, 9 Sep 1942, 13)

Born in Kirkoswald, Scotland on 19 September 1903, Andrew Thomson Law was an electrical engineer who moved Canada as a young man. He married in Winnipeg in 1931 and was commissioned with the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders the next year. He served as major and second-in-command before the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942. On the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Alf Gostling, Law led the battalion forward across the beach under withering enemy fire. “It was a great show,” he wrote home. “And it was a great honor for me to command them in the first Cameron engagement. The boys did honor to the name Cameron and it was a heartbreak to see so many gallant lads fall.”

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