Lieutenant-Colonel T.S. Leslie

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Lieutenant-Colonel J.B. Stevenson
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada

Soldiering is not a life-long occupation for any man, and when the time comes for the Seaforths to go back to civil life, they are going to be fitter and better men for their time in the army, if anything we can do will make them so.

(Stevenson in Vancouver Sun, 10 Nov 1939, 13)

Born in Glasgow, Scotland on 16 November 1882, Thomas Soga Leslie had been commissioned with the 231st Battalion and joined the 72nd (Seaforth Highlanders) Battalion as a reinforcement officer in France in May 1917. He suffered a gunshot wound to the arm in September 1918. Twenty years later he became commanding officer of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada. Too old for overseas service, he relinquished command on 1 September 1939 to another fellow First World War veteran, John Bryden Stevenson

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