Brigadier Matthew Penhale
4th & 3rd Infantry Brigades

[On nuclear attack] Surely it is better to tell the people everything than to withhold information they must have to ensure survival.

(Quoted in Star-Phoenix, 16 Jan 1960, 5)

Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec on 13 February 1895, Matthew Howard Somers Penhale enlisted with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery in 1915 after graduation from RMC. He was wounded at Cambrai in 1917 and made a professional career in the army after the First World War. After the outbreak of war in 1939, Penhale served as assistant adjunct general of Canadian Military headquarters in London before returning to Canada to head the directorate of staff duties at National Defence Headquarters.

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