Lieutenant-Colonel C.H. Neroutsos
14th (Calgary) Tank Regiment

There was such a tremendous loss of life that it will be very hard to treat it in an objective way. These are not tapes of historians, they’re merely tapes of a man who happened to be there with all his weaknesses and his emotions. And I do not know how far I want to go.

(C.H. Neroutsos tapes, undated)

Born in Victoria, British Columbia on 24 August 1904, Cyril Houlton Neroutsos was a McGill University graduate and marine and aviation representative for International Paints Canada Ltd. A prewar reserve officer in the machine gun brigade, in September 1939, he volunteered with the Three Rivers Regiment, which would be redesignated a tank battalion in the armoured corps. He served as second-in-command of the 12th Tank (Three Rivers) Regiment overseas while the Canadian tank brigade trained in the United Kingdom.

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