Lieutenant-Colonel S.H. McComb
Perth Regiment

He had served during most of the Great War, and wanted to go again. Hadn’t he gone over with the “Old 34th” as a buck private, and hadn’t he earned promotions in the field, until he returned on demobilization with a commission?

(Windsor Star, 6 Jun 1940, 28)

Born on 29 August 1891 in Palmerston, Ontario, Samuel Herbert McComb was a brakeman for the Canadian National Railway and a First World War veteran. He enlisted with the 18th Battalion, which deployed to France in September 1915 and suffered shell shock at the Somme in 1916. He took a commission in the Perth Regiment after the war, rising to the rank of major.

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