Lieutenant-Colonel Larry Henderson
Canadian Scottish Regiment

Our line in this war is not like the lines veterans of the last war in France knew. We live in slit trenches. The same old scenes, though, prevail I am sure … Just now it is quiet except for our occasional shelling, and once in a while the cry of “stretcher-bearer,” the smell of dead cattle, patrols sneaking back just at daybreak, etc., so I guess it’s pretty much the same old war.

(Henderson, Time Colonist, 25 Aug 1944, 10)

Born on 18 July 1908 in Vernon, British Columbia, Lawrence Sinclair Henderson was a rugby player and commissioned officer in the Canadian Scottish since 1928. He served as a company commander at D-Day and earned the Distinguished Service Order at Hill 168 near Falaise for “courage and leadership under heavy fire.” He temporarily took command of the battalion in December 1944 when Major A.H. Plows was injured in a motor accident. He assumed command again in February 1945 when Lieutenant-Colonel D.G. Crofton was severely wounded.

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