Brigadier Eric Haldenby
48th Highlanders of Canada
9th Infantry Brigade

The people are simply magnificent. They do not complain. They realize that they are the front line of British defences and it was amazing the way they sprang into action when the air attack on Britain started. There is no panic or alarm … Germany will never succeed in breaking the spirit of the British.

(Haldenby quoted in Globe and Mail, 11 Oct 1940)

Born in Toronto on 5 June 1893, Eric Wilson Haldenby was an architect and First World War veteran. He had been commissioned with the 48th Highlanders and enlisted with the 92nd Battalion in August 1915. He served on the front with the 15th Battalion, earning a promotion to captain and the Military Cross for gallantry at Vimy Ridge and Hill 70.

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