Lieutenant-Colonel Jim Creighton
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada

Some of the boys who had been wounded before or during the attack on Oronta and who had not met Col. Creighton since he was a company commander were anxious to learn all about him. The Seaforths have been the most fortunate regiment in the matter of leadership. With the appointment of Col. Hoffmeister to the command of the brigade, we felt the loss of his personal leadership intimately.

(Maj. Roy Durand in The Province, 17 Jun 1944, 46)

Born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on 26 April 1903, Allen James Creighton graduated from RMC, served with the Canadian Engineers, and completed an engineering degree from McGill before settling in British Columbia in 1926. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Albro Creighton, who was killed in 1916 in command of the 1st Battalion. A lumberman and militia officer with the Seaforth Highlanders, Creighton went overseas with the regiment in December 1939.

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