Lieutenant-Colonel J.R. Kingham
Canadian Scottish Regiment

I must protest against the Canadian army being used in this way for movie publicity … If [actor Richard] Greene really wants to enlist in a Scottish regiment, we’ll take him at once. He is just the age and build we want. But we can’t given him a commission … If he makes good in the ranks, he will have a good chance with others of winning a commission later.

(Kingham quoted in Vancouver Province, 5 Aug 1940, 2)

Born on 24 March 1898 in Victoria, British Columbia, Joshua Rowland Kingham was president of the Kingham-Gillespie Coal Company, a First World War veteran, and colonel of the Canadian Scottish Regiment since 1938. He had enlisted with the 88th Battalion in December 1915 and deployed to France as a private with the 16th Battalion in August 1916. A bullet wound to the skull the next month put an end to his frontline service.

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