Lieutenant-Colonel Herb Quinn
Regina Rifle Regiment

The Reserve Army is not being equipped for fun, but as insurance against the same thing happening here as has happened in other countries which believed themselves safe from attack. We must be prepared to combat internal subversive elements as well as to repel invaders from our shores, if such an emergency should ever arise.

(Quoted in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 14 Nov 1942 3)

Born on 8 December 1884 in London, Ontario, Herbert Joseph Quinn was a reporter for the London Free Press before moving west and settling in Manitoba in 1905. He enlisted with the 181st Battalion in May 1916 and joined the Canadian Machine Gun Corps in France in November 1917. He was wounded in August 1918 and earned the Military Medal. After the First World War, he moved to Saskatchewan, worked for the Moose Jaw Times-Herald and the Regina Leader-Post, and then established an insurance and real estate firm in 1928.

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