Lieutenant-Colonel T.C. Lewis
32nd Reconnaissance Regiment (RMR)
7th Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Hussars)

Colonel Lewis was absolutely outstanding as a commander, and, had he lived, would have undoubtedly have proved one of Canada’s foremost military leaders … His name will always have a high place in the annals of both Regiments which he commanded, as well as in the hearts of all who served with him.

(Gen. C.B. Price, Montreal Star, 7 Nov 1944, 3)

Born in Montreal on 9 February 1911, Thomas Cripps Lewis was a Sun Life insurance statistician and junior officer in the Royal Montreal Regiment (RMR). He had joined in 1925, rose to regimental sergeant major and was commissioned a lieutenant before it embarked for the United Kingdom with the 1st Division in December 1939. When he returned to Canada for instructional purposes at RMC, he had risen to the rank of major. He returned overseas in May 1943 and took command of the RMR, now redesignated from a machine gun battalion to the 32nd Reconnaissance Regiment.

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