Major Gordon Brown
Regina Rifle Regiment

However, battle conditions place intolerable pressures on people, with unpredictable results. A hero today can fail tomorrow. A great leader last week can suffer from battle exhaustion this week.

(Brown, “Battle of Moyland Wood,” 101)

Born on 27 July 1918 in Manor, Saskatchewan, Douglas Gordon Brown went overseas as a reinforcement officer in June 1942 and joined the Regina Rifle Regiment. He was promoted to captain in January 1944 and received a promotion to “D” company commander shortly after landing on D-Day. Although twice wounded, he remained with the battalion for virtually the entire campaign in Northwest Europe and took temporary command of the Rifles in the final battle of the war at the end of April 1945.

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