Major Strome Galloway
Royal Canadian Regiment

By then, many more Royal Canadians had learned how to die; but fortunately many others, including myself, had learned how to live—or at least how to reduce the odds on dying. Sicily wasn’t all death in the sun, but it was an adventure for all. For me, it was my second campaign. Except for the CO, whose untimely death removed him from the scene 14 days after the landing, I was the only member of the battalion who had been in a battle.

 (Strome Galloway, The General Who Never Was, 143)

An exceptionally courageous infantry officer, a prolific and opinionated writer, and a stylish moustache aficionado, Andrew Strome Ayers Carmichael Galloway was perhaps the most interesting and colourful character in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, on 29 November 1915, he was a prewar militiaman, amateur poet, and newspaper editor. Having joined the RCR just before the start of the war, he went overseas in December 1939.

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