Lieutenant-Colonel G.R.H. Ross
5th Armoured Regiment (8th Princess Louise’s Hussars)

The success of a regiment is seldom accredited to its second-in-command, his job supposedly being whole administrative, but to Lt-Col Ross should go as much recognition as to any other who ever served with the unit … To the regiment Lt-Col. Ross has been more than just its second-in-command. He has been an integral part of the regiment that has profited so much by his judgement and decision and the regiment has been an integral part of him.

(The 8th Hussar, vol. 1, no. 2, Sept 1945, 11)

Born on 16 December 1904 in Woodstock, New Brunswick, George Robert Hay Ross was the long-serving second-in-command of the 5th Armoured Regiment. He had joined the Princess Louise’s Hussars in 1927, mobilized in July 1940 as second-in-command of “A” Squadron and became second-in-command of the regiment overseas in April 1942. Serving with the Hussars through the war, he finally took command in August 1945, succeeding Lieutenant-Colonel John W. Eaton.

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