Lieutenant-Colonel D.F. Forbes
North Nova Scotia Highlanders

We are down here to study Anglo-American tactics in the field in the field in the hope of learning their methods and to take this knowledge back to our boys in England. But right now our biggest trouble consists of being bored stiff for lack of something to do.

(Quoted in Montreal Star, 18 Jan 1943, 2)

Born on 24 October 1906 in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Donald Frederick Forbes belonged to the Colchester and Hants Regiment from 1921 to 1937 and then served as adjutant with the Cape Breton Highlanders. He transferred to the North Nova Scotia Highlanders in 1941 and served as second-in-command during the Normandy campaign. For refusal an order he viewed as a waste of his men, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Petch was fired and Forbes took over on 3 August 1944.  

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