Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Angle
9th Armoured Regiment (British Columbia Dragoons)

During these operations the regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Angle destroyed: one Panther tank, was instrumental in destroying another, three self-propelled guns, four mountain field guns, seven anti-tank guns, four mortars, three trailers with mortars equipment, captured or killed one hundred and seventy-give Germans, and captured sixty horses and equipment with a lost of only two of his own tanks and six personnel wounded.

(D.S.O. citation, 2 Feb 1945)

Born on 31 March 1906 in Heytgsbury, England, Harold Herbert Angle moved in 1923 to Kelowna, British Columbia where he worked as a fruit farmer. A prewar militia officer with the BC Dragoons, he was among the first to volunteer in September 1939 and went overseas as second-in-command of the redesignated 9th Armoured Regiment in November 1941. Following duties as brigade major he returned to the regiment in April 1943 to replace Major A.P. Ardagh in succession of Lieutenant-Colonel W.C. Murphy.

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