Lieutenant-Colonel C.A. Muir
Lincoln and Welland Regiment

We aren’t a Field Unit yet and are still attached to Reinforcements but the Colonel and most of the old crowd are carrying on just as if we were back in Canada. I am one of the outcasts in the Unit because I want to train men to fight while this bunch of phoney peace-time soldiers run a social club.

(Anonymous officer’s letter, Sept 1943 censor report)

Born on 26 November 1896 in Glasgow, Scotland, Charles Andrew Muir moved to Canada as a teenager and settled in Hamilton. He enlisted with the 36th Battalion in April 1915 and reinforced the 4th Battalion in France. After a year at the front, he was put out of action by shrapnel at the Somme in October 1916. During the First World War, two brothers were wounded while another two were killed.

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