Lieutenant-Colonel M.S. Dunn
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders

A soldier is just as much a citizen as any other person. He must be a good citizen first. He can’t be a good soldier otherwise. I feel that every person in the Canadian Army has a definite responsibility toward the community where he is stationed. He must not be merely an onlooker.

(Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 Aug 1955)

Born in 1905 in Old Chelsea, Quebec, Michael Stephen Dunn graduated from the University of Ottawa and was a school teacher and vice principal in Cornwall, Ontario. Originally second-in-command of the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, Dunn reverted to captain to go overseas with the 1st Division headquarters staff in December 1939. Following appointments with Canadian Military Headquarters in London, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and deputy assistant adjutant-general.

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