Lieutenant-Colonel G.G. Elder
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Lieutenant-Colonel James Carvosso
South Alberta Regiment

Everyone wants to be an officer … They forget—or rather they don’t know that all the commissions in the PPCLI were given to the ranks in the last war. That’s how I got my commission.

(Carvosso quoted in Vancouver Province, 29 Sep 1939, 13)

Born on 16 June 1891 in Darfort, Kent, England, James Husband Carvosso was a long serving PPCLI officer and decorated First World War veteran. Fives-times wounded in action on the Western Front, he earned the Military Cross at Vimy Ridge and the M.C. Bar at Mons. “Although severely wounded, “the citation read for his action at Vimy, “he continued to command his Company until he fainted from loss of blood. His gallant example has the most inspiring effect on his men.”

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