Lieutenant-Colonel J. Aimé Biron
27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment
Fusiliers de Sherbrooke

Major Biron has always taken a great interest in the welfare of the men and he will be missed by everyone, perhaps more by the French elements of the Unit of which he was a representative.

(War diary, 30 Apr 1942)

Born on 9 July 1902 Coaticook, Quebec, Joseph Aimé Biron was a longtime militia member of Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke since 1920. He joined as a private and was commissioned in 1923. When the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment was formed in July 1940 from the amalgamation of the English and French Sherbrooke militia regiments, Biron became second-in-command under Lieutenant-Colonel M.W. McA’Nulty. In February 1942, following garrison duty in Newfoundland Biron assumed command of the bilingual unit when McA’Nulty went overseas for training in England.

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