Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Rutherford
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

Dickie Rutherford, commanding “A” Company came back and he was wounded and he was laughing … He said he and the sergeant-major had had a little bet as to who was going to be back in England in a hospital first. And here he was walking back with his fingers shot off!

(Norman Ross interview, 16 Aug 1979)

Born in Shrewsberry, England in March 1916, Richard Lewis Rutherford a graduate of the University of Manitoba and commissioned with the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders since 1936. He served as aide-to-camp for Major-General Victor Odlum of 2nd Canadian Division in 1940 before returning to Canada for staff officer work with the Pacific Command. He rejoined the Camerons and served as a company commander during the Normandy campaign.

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