Lieutenant-Colonel Fred Jasperson
Essex Scottish Regiment

And how magnificently you have supported those soldiers, all those who have gone from this community into the services, I know from personal experience, and there are thousands to bear witness to this, that we never wanted for anything you could give us, the greatest of which was that intangible thing, morale—the very fibre and life of a soldier—morale. You gave it to us by the real love and marvelous generosity of your hearts.

(Quoted in Windsor Star, 25 Jul 1945, 6)

Born on 16 July 1900 in Kingsville, Essex, Ontario, Frederick Kent Jasperson was a lawyer, fiction writer, and scholar, having attended the University of Toronto, Columbia Law School, and Osgoode Hall. Active in the militia, he had belonged to the 48th Highlanders of Toronto and was commissioned in the Essex Scottish as he started a law career in Windsor. As third-in-command, he led the regiment overseas in summer 1940, following the advance party of Lieutenant-Colonel A.S. Pearson and second-in-command J.H. Mothersill.

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