Lieutenant-General Charlie Foulkes
3rd Infantry Brigade
2nd Canadian Division
II Canadian Corps

I have come to the conclusion that attempts to limit the use of force by banning certain types of weapons or by partial disarmament including all types of nuclear weapons, does not appear to be the right answer to this dilemma. I take issue with those who say let us go back to conventional weapons, as if it was all right to settle disputes by conventional means when only soldiery get killed but the world is saved from destruction.

(National Post, 9 Mar 1963, 6)

Born on 3 January 1903 in Stockton-on-Tees, England, Charles Foulkes grew up in London, Ontario and joined the Royal Canadian Regiment after graduating from Western University in 1926. Following staff posts to militia district headquarters in Toronto and Kingston, he attended staff college at Camberley, England. At the outbreak of war in 1939, he was appointed brigade major when the 1st Division went overseas in December 1939. By September 1940, he was back in Canada as general staff officer for the newly formed 3rd Canadian Division.

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