Lieutenant-Colonel R.S.W. Fordham
Lincoln and Welland Regiment

It is sometimes extremely difficult to make certain Refugees comfortable and happy in any sense of the words, as instance occur where they seem anxious to find fault and complain … Actually, many changes have been made of late for the benefit of Refugees, and it is probably correct to say that nowhere are they treated better than in Canada.

(Fordham quoted in Eric Koch, Deemed Suspect, 216)

Born on 9 May 1897 in London, England, Reginald Sydney Walter Fordham was a lawyer in Niagara Falls and a First World War veteran. He had joined the 98th Battalion as a lieutenant in December 1915 and joined the 13th Battalion in France at the end of September 1916. Less than two weeks later he went missing in action and spent almost the next two years a prisoner of war. He returned to law practice after the war and in July 1936 became commanding officer of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment.

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