Major Buck Buchanan
South Saskatchewan Regiment

They were very convinced Nazis and felt that Hitler could do no wrong and that the disasters which had hit the German army were the result of politics. They thought the Jews and communists were responsible for everything.

(quoted in Leader-Post, 18 Nov 1944, 1)

Born on 13 March 1910 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, George Bruce Buchanan was postal clerk when enlisted as a private in the South Saskatchewan Regiment on mobilization in September 1939. He received a commission the summer before the SSR went overseas in December 1940. He served as captain adjutant under Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Merritt during the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942 and, as he described, “I was one of the few men who made it back to England that day.”

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