Lieutenant-Colonel Cammie Ware
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry

When you are a commanding officer, you are responsible for everything that happens in that Battalion and every man and so on … they are never out of your mind … You never get a night’s sleep … command entails everything … You’re responsible for every man in the Regiment … You’re responsible for every operation.

(Ware interview, quoted in Strickland, “Leading from the Front”)

Born 9 August 1913 in London, Ontario, Cameron Bethel Ware was son of a Canadian Army colonel and joined the PPCLI after graduation from RMC in 1935. Having been attached to the British Army for training just prior to the Second World War, he left England until Canada declared war only to return to England in October 1939. After completing infantry courses, Ware transferred back to the regiment in 1940 as a company commander. He became second-in-command of the PPCLI in February 1942.

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