Brigadier Bob Wyman
1st & 2nd Armoured Brigades

Everything I have seen since I have arrived home gives new reason for this fight. There is freedom here and greener fields and even fatter cattle. You notice these things after being in Britain and they are not imaginary. They are the things we hold dear and things that most Britons cannot enjoy under war conditions.

(Quoted in Edmonton Journal, 18 Jun 1941, 1)

Born to Canadian parents in Philadelphia on 23 February 1904, Robert Andrew Wyman was a Canadian Nation Railway statistician in Edmonton and a militia officer since 1923. He mobilized as commanding officer of an artillery regiment and went overseas with the 1st Canadian Division in December 1939. After a promotion to brigadier in May 1941, he returned to Canada to organize the 1st Canadian Support Group.

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