Lieutenant-Colonel Matthias McA’Nulty
27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment

Col. M.W. McA’Nulty, Canadian officer chosen to take back Hong Kong and evacuate Canadian prisoners of war in Japan, told … it was not the atomic bomb which made the Japs call it quits, but the terrible pounding they took from the American B-29’s.

(St. Johnsbury Republican, 22 Mar 1946, 1)

Born on 17 February 1893 in Point Alexander, Ontario, Matthias William Cyrus McA’Nulty was a stockbroker in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, commandant of the Cadet Officer Training Corps at Bishop’s College and commanding officer of the Sherbrooke Regiment from 1924 to 1930. During the First World War, he had enlisted with the Railway Construction and Forestry Depot as a lieutenant in August 1917 and went to France on a draft to the Canadian Machine Gun Corps a year later. McA’Nulty took command of the Regiment again in 1939.

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