Lieutenant-Colonel Pot Doucet
Perth Regiment

Immediately on the Canadian Army becoming operational, we began to get briefings twice a day at H.Q. about progress of the fighting on our own front and the other Allied fronts in France. Our briefing officer was Lieutenant-Colonel H.E.T. (“Pot”) Doucet of Montreal. “Pot” Doucet was the most able briefing officer any correspondents had helping them in France. Personally I have never known a better one anywhere.

(Ross Munro, Gauntlet to Overlord, 68)

Born in Montreal in 1907, Herbert Emile Theodore Pothier (Pot) Doucet was an engineer, Royal Military College graduate and militia officer with Royal Highlanders of Canada (The Black Watch) since 1929. He attended the staff college at Camberley, England in 1940 before returning as tactics instructor at RMC. He went overseas in October 1942 to serve as brigade major with the 1st Infantry Brigade.

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