Lieutenant-Colonel Phil Strickland
Highland Light Infantry of Canada

Later, on the 12th October, at Driewegen … Lieutenant Colonel Philip Wheaton Strickland again led his battalion with great courage and determination against a strongly held German position which threatened to delay the advance of 9 Canadian Infantry Brigade.

(D.S.O. citation, 27 Nov 1944)

Born on 9 April 1913 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Philip Wheaton Strickland was a manufacturing executive in Chatham, Ontario, having graduated the University of Saskatchewan with a law degree and attended Columbia University. He mobilized with the Highland Light Infantry in 1940 serving as intelligence officer but soon qualified for staff officer duties. He served with First Canadian Army until the early phase of the Normandy campaign when he was appointed brigade major with 9th Infantry Brigade.

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