Major John C. Cave
27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment

It’s a strange thing I can remember in detail what happened between 1925 and 1939, and yet the war years I guess I don’t want to remember them. Because it wasn’t a very pleasant thing to see men killed. I never got any real opportunity to distinguish myself if I could have, I never thought about it.

(Cave interview, 24 Aug 1978)

Born on 24 December 1907 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, and raised in Winnipeg, John Clifford Cave was a Permanent Force non-commissioned officer and armoured corps instructor. He had joined the PPCLI in 1925, trained as a machine gunner and was posted to the army tank school in 1938. He was commissioned in 1940 and served as tank instructor at Fort Knox, Kentucky before being assigned to the 4th Division under General F.F. Worthington.

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