Major-General Rod Keller
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
1st Infantry Brigade
3rd Canadian Division

You don’t know who’s going to be killed next or who’s going to be promoted. Everybody’s got to be ready to move up at least two places. Every private has got to be ready to become a corporal on five minutes’ notice, every corporal a sergeant-major, every sergeant-major a captain, every lieutenant a major.

(Keller in Winnipeg Tribune, 24 June 1943, 7)

Born in Gloucestershire, England on 2 October 1900, Rodney Frederick Leopold Keller, immigrated to Kelowna, British Columbia as a child. He graduated from RMC in 1920 and took a commission with the PPCLI. As a prewar captain with the Permeant Force, he went overseas as a brigade major with the general staff. In June 1941, he was appointed to replace Lieutenant-Colonel J.N. Edgar in command of the regiment. The next month he was promoted again to brigadier of the 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade.

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