Lieutenant-Colonel Charlie McLean
11th (Ontario) Tank Regiment

Lt-Col. McLean has always shown the most outstanding qualities of leadership and resourcefulness and complete disregard of personal danger. Time after time he has rallied the men of his regiment to carry on under almost impossible conditions.

(D.S.O. citation, 10 Nov 1945)

Born in Virden, Manitoba on 17 March 1913, Charles Milton McLean was a prewar member of the Manitoba Dragoons and went overseas as an officer with the Fort Garry Horse in 1941. He joined the Ontario Regiment in Italy in January 1944 as second-in-command under the new CO and fellow westerner Lieutenant-Colonel Bob Purves.

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