Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Pangman
Carleton and York Regiment
Essex Scottish Regiment

We have entered a major war. Industry is anticipating or is already sharing in the increased money put into circulation by our war effort … The war profits of the present struggle will not accrue to the common shareholders so directly or fully as was the case in the last war. This time government control of prices and excess profit taxes should be an effective rein on large profits. Industry will have to pay its share of the war costs.

(Pangman, Financial Post, 20 Jan 1940, 8)

Born in Toronto on 12 June 1908, John Edward Case Pangman was a stockbroker and fifteen-year prewar member of the Queen’s Own Rifles. He mobilized for active service in June 1940, and went overseas with the regiment as second-in-command the following summer. After attending the War Staff College at Camberley, England, he was posted to Sicily to replace Lieutenant-Colonel F. Dodd Tweedie of the Carleton and York Regiment in August 1943.

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