Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Hiltz
West Nova Scotia Regiment

Maj. Frank Hiltz, a Nova Scotian … He had been running a variety of training programs at B Echelon and relieving the CO at times. Throughout those months he was among those left out of battle holding himself in readiness to take charge should the CO be disabled.

(Wilmot, Through the Hitler Line, 96)

Born in Halifax, on 9 July 1915, Frank E. Hiltz was the long serving second-in-command of the West Nova Scotia Regiment. He had joined shortly after Lieutenant-Colonel R.S.E. Waterman succeeded to command in December 1943. Hiltz took charge temporarily when Waterman was relieved in September 1944, but he would not officially assume command of the regiment until the removal of Lieutenant-Colonel A.L. Saunders in December 1944.

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