Lieutenant-Colonel John Mogg
9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry

My attitude was quite different, in the actual battle, I thought I wasn’t going to be killed. And I thought anyhow if I was going to be there was nothing I could do about it. And if my name was written on whatever bullet or shell … that’s it. Bad luck.

(Maj-Gen. H.J. Mogg, IWM interview, 28 Mar 1989)

Born on 13 February 1913 in Comox, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Herbert John Mogg began his army career as a private in the Coldstream Guards in 1933 and rose to Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe in 1973. After early education in Victoria, he went to public school in England, where he decided on an army career. In 1935, he was admitted to RMC, Sandhurst and afterwards took a commission in the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

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