Lieutenant-Colonel M.B.K. Gordon
27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment

I had meant to speak to all of you before leaving but time would not permit. We have known joy end sorrow together which I feel and hope has welded us together so tightly that no matter what the lapse of time, nothing can destroy that feeling of wonderful teem spirit we have developed. Each and every one of you has been magnificent in his job, Your loyalty end will to get on has been more then anyone could ask

(Gordon farewell address, war diary, 7 Feb 1945)

Born on 7 September 1905 in Dixie, Ontario, Melville Burgoyne Kennedy Gordon was a Quebec lawyer and graduate of the University of Toronto, where he had belonged to the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps. Commissioned with the Governor General’s Body Guard in 1924, he transferred to the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards in 1928, rising to the rank of major. He mobilized for active service in May 1941 with the 12th Armoured (Three Rivers) Regiment. In February 1943, he was promoted to command the 27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment.

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