Lieutenant-Colonel Ernie Anderson
North Shore Regiment

I am sure that at some time during the attack every man felt he could not go on. Men were being killed or wounded on all sides and the advance seemed pointless as well as hopeless. I never realised until the attack on Carpiquet how far discipline, pride of unit, and above all, pride in oneself and family, can carry a man even when each step forward meant possible death.

(Quoted in Will Bird, North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, 269)

Born on 24 August 1911 in Burnt Church, New Brunswick, James Ernest Anderson had a law degree from the University of New Brunswick. He joined the North Shore Regiment as a lieutenant in 1940 and served as “D” Company commander on D-Day, witnessing some of the some brutal fighting in Normandy. Nicknamed “Uncle Ern,” he rose to be second-in-command and succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel D.B. Buell when he was wounded on 10 August 1944.

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