Lieutenant-Colonel Mowbray Alway
8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Hussars)

If I should not see you all again in a theatre of Operations, I ask that when you get back to “civvy street,” if you should at anytime see me, please let out a “yell” or make yourself known in some manner. If I recognise you I will do the same.

(Alway farewell address, war diary, 27 Apr 1945)

Born on 15 November 1910 in Hamilton, Ontario, Bruce Mowbray Alway was a graduate of the city’s Collegiate Institution and worked for a bank then a steel company. Although a member of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry since 1935, he transferred to the newly formed 8th Reconnaissance Regiment in the January 1941. Just over three years later, he succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel F.A. Vokes, who had been assigned to the 9th Armoured (British Columbia Dragoons) Regiment in the Italian theatre.

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