Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Griffiths
Highland Light Infantry of Canada

Although all good biographies start with date and place of birth, Nifty would be the most disappointed man in the would if one failed to refer to Niagara Falls. Griff, though small of stature has an enviable record as an athlete … His infectious good humour and endless supply of good jokes has helped us over many a blue day.

(RMC Review, Class of 1931, 30)

Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on 2 October 1909, Franklyn McCallum Griffiths was a graduate of the Royal Military College and an Osgoode Hall-trained lawyer in Niagara. He had belonged to the Lincoln and Weiland Regiment before the Second World War and transferred to the Royal Canadian Regiment in late 1939. He completed a course at RMC in 1942 and served as brigade major and staff officer when he went back to England.

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