Lieutenant-Colonel Stoney Richardson
14th (Calgary) Tank Regiment

“He was unique in the army,” said Fred Ritchie, his second-in-command. “He was the ideal colonel; spit and polish didn’t impress him. He rolled dice with his boys, and still had their respect.”

(Maclean Kay, Globe and Mail, 29 Aug 2007)

Born in Vegreville, Alberta on 12 October 1908, Clinton Argue (Stoney) Richardson was a store grocer when he joined the Calgary Regiment on mobilization in February 1941. He earned a temporary commission prior to the unit going overseas in June 1941 and became regimental quartermaster. Known as “old stone face,” Richardson soon came to be nicknamed Stoney. He served with the Calgary Tanks for the whole duration of the war from mobilization in March 1941 to demobilization in December 1945 when he led the regiment home as commanding officer.

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