Lieutenant-Colonel G.H. Christiansen
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders

A fairly tall and heavily built offr who has a quiet and pleasant manner and good military bearing. He has a rather slow manner of speech and does not give the impression of a fast thinker. He appears intelligent and capable of doing a job if given plenty of time. He is slow in reaching a decision but is quite determined once he has reached it. Motivation appears to be good.

(Officer Survey and Classification Board report, 2 Jan 1945)

Born on 5 May 1899 in Arnprior, Ontario, Goddard Henry Christiansen was a high school teacher in Kingston and commissioned officer with Princess of Wales Own Regiment since 1932. As an eighteen-year-old, he had enlisted with the 69th Battery in December 1917 and served in France with the Canadian Field Artillery in the final hundred days of the First World War. By the early 1930s, he worked as a machine shop teacher and football coach at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute.

Continue reading →