Lieutenant-Colonel Bob Keane
Lake Superior Regiment

It is very difficult to speak upon an occasion like this; one just doesn’t know what can possibly be said about the boys that are gone. I was with the unit when we received our first casualty on the continent and have been with you ever since. It gets tougher and tougher as time goes on accepting these casualties. With the memory of our comrades still fresh, let us remember the mothers, wives, sweethearts and families of the boys, and do what we can to lighten their load.

(Keane, war diary, 18 March 1945)

Born on 14 May 1914 in Fort William, Ontario, Robert Angus Keane was a hockey player, real estate agent and a commissioned officer in the Lake Superior Regiment since 1935. He became battalion adjutant after mobilization in 1940 and went overseas with the Cameron Highlanders in 1941. Although he rejoined the LSR in January 1942 when it converted to motorized infantry, he went to the United States for parachute training while the regiment embarked for England.

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