Brigadier Howard Graham
Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
1st Infantry Brigade

I gave him a concise history of our relationship as being cold, critical, harsh, and unfriendly on his part, and he seemed to have little or no understanding or appreciation of the problems to be faced by a commander in the field. My brigade was excellent, there was none better, we had accomplished everything asked of us. I then told him of the tongue-lashing Simonds had given me in front of my driver and signaller after an all-night, difficult, but successful move.

(Graham, Citizen and Soldier, 163)

Born in on 15 July 1898 in Buffalo, New York, Howard Douglas Graham was a lawyer and long-time militia officer with the Hasty Ps. He had enlisted with the 155th Battalion in March 1916 before serving as an orderly clerk in England and with Canadian Corps headquarters in France. He graduated from Osgoode Hall in 1921 and was later commissioned with the newly formed Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. He served a term as mayor of Trenton, Ontario in 1933.

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