Lieutenant-Colonel G. Allen Ross
Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment

Alan Ross, still a major and acting CO. only, was not to be allowed to carry on in command. The Brigadier had decided to replace him with an unknown from the 48th Highlanders. This news did not greatly affect the new reinforcements, but the older soldiers, the N.C.O.s and officers, were properly irate. Ross had served the Regiment for a long time. He had displayed outstanding leadership in battle and, since Cameron’s departure, had handled the battalion with skill and good effect.

(Farley Mowat, The Regiment, 369)

Born in Montreal 14 September 1909, George Allen Ross Jr. was an investment broker and captain in the Royal Highlanders of Canada (The Black Watch). He went overseas with the regiment in September 1942 but transferred to the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment as a reinforcement officer in Italy over a year later. He joined prior to the Battle of Ortona and earned a field promotion to major within six months.

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