Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Cantlie
Royal Highlanders of Canada (The Black Watch)

You allowed the CO and the Adjutant to both be captured once and I got shot in the stomach as well—as the general said, “you must take better care of the CO even though you might not like him because he is the fellow who has to run the show.”

(Quoted in Jarymowycz, The History of the Black Watch, Vol. 2, 55)

Born in Winnipeg on 5 October 1907, Stuart Stephen Tuffnel Cantlie was a Montreal salesman, RMC graduate, and militia captain in the Royal Highlanders of Canada, which his uncle Lieutenant-Colonel G.S. Cantlie had commanded in the First World War. He went overseas as adjutant but returned in January 1942 for instructional work at RMC and general staff duties. Seven months later he returned to the United Kingdom, where he was attached to 3rd Division headquarters. In April 1943, he succeeded his cousin, Lieutenant-Colonel S.D. Cantlie in command of the Black Watch.

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