Lieutenant-Colonel R.J. McPherson
Highland Light Infantry of Canada

Made of good, solid stuff … would do well despite conservative ideas and limited imagination.

(Bernard Montgomery quoted in English, Monty and the Canadian Army, 68)

Born on 20 March 1906 in Puslinch, Ontario, Robert John McPherson was a prewar member of the Highland Light Infantry in Galt and mobilized as second-in-command in 1940. He succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel J.A. MacIntosh in January 1942. The next month, during his inspection of the 9th Infantry Brigade, General Bernard Montgomery, thought McPherson “good stuff” with promise to do well, although Monty also noted that the newly promoted colonel evidently lacked imagination.

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