Lieutenant-Colonel Fred Jenner
27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment

A man is here to-day and to-morrow he is vanished: when he is taken away from our sight he is quickly out of our mind. Yet the men whose names appear on the Roll of Honour of the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment will never go from our memories. Those who died, whose lives passed like a shadow, are the men who are the real heroes of this Regiment.

(Jenner’s message in Roll of Honour, war diary, Jun 1945)

Born on 20 July 1909 in Elkhorn, Manitoba, Frederick Thomas Jenner was an accountant and auto dealer in Olds, Alberta. He mobilized with the Calgary Regiment as battalion adjutant and participated in the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942. He returned to Canada for general staff instruction and was assigned to the directorate of training. He went back overseas in November 1943 to be assigned to the Canadian Armoured Corps with First Canadian Army headquarters.

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