Lieutenant-Colonel Pat Grffin
2nd Armoured Regiment (Lord Strathcona’s Horse)

Many orders may mean the sacrifice of life to gain an ultimate important objective such orders will not be given by the comd without a great deal of consideration and when given they must be obey instantly and implicitly.

(P.G. Griffin, LdSH War Diary, 28 Apr 1944)

Born in County Down, Ireland, on 8 March 1893, Philip (Patrick) George Griffin was an advertising manager in Toronto and a First World War veteran. He had joined the Royal Canadian Dragoons in 1913 and earned a commission with the Canadian Machine Gun Brigade at Vimy Ridge. He served the Lord Strathcona’s Horse until retirement in 1929 for health reasons. Ten years later he joined his old regiment as a captain and went overseas as second-in-command in November 1941.

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