Lieutenant-Colonel Bob Lindsay
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry

I felt they had missed an opportunity to deal the enemy a telling blow. There was no point in blaming the soldiers of the PPCLI. There were none better in the 2nd Brigade. I blamed Lindsay and the two company commanders for the cancellation of the operation without my permission and I made up my mind really to houseclean the regiment’s officers when the battle cooled. And I did.

(Vokes, My Story, 120)

Born on 12 September 1902 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Robert Alexander Lindsay was a former lacrosse player, schoolteacher and principal. A militia officer in the South Alberta Regiment since 1927, he reverted from second-in-command to enlist with the PPCLI as a captain shortly before going overseas. He succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Rod Keller on his promotion to brigadier in July 1941.

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