Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Sinclair
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada

I thought my nerves might give if I ever ran into an affair of that sort, but something seemed to change in me and I saw without any particular sensation things happen, which in my previous state of mind would have driven me mad. One of my men actually did go crazy this morning after we got out. Every battalion in the division suffered about as much and the whole is pretty wrecked.

(Sinclair to mother, 28 Apr 1915)

Born in Toronto on 16 June 1891, Ian MacIntosh Roe Sinclair was a decorated First World War veteran, four times wounded in action, twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross. He had sailed for England as a subaltern with the 13th Battalion in October 1914. Almost five years later, he returned to Canada at the head of that battalion. He became temporary commanding officer during the fighting at Canal du Nord in September/October 1918, and then again from February 1919 until demobilization.

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