Lieutenant-Colonel Walter C. Lawson
Carleton and York Regiment

The Colonel says that we officers must work 24 hours a day and sleep when we can find time. He says we must study at night after our lecture. Naturally he doesn’t, and he even sleeps until 9 a.m. and has a sleep at noon. Everyone here is hoping he will be sent home. He hasn’t a friend, and all the men hate him which isn’t good for the Regt.

(anonymous Carleton and York officer, Nov 1941 censor reports)

Born in King’s County, New Brunswick on 1 February 1889, Walter Cyril Lawson was a teacher and cadet instructor. Commissioned with the 26th Battalion in February 1915, he earned a field promotion to captain and the Military Cross before being severely wounded by a shell explosion at Passchendaele. He became a lawyer after the war and was elected Liberal member of the provincial legislature for Sunbury County in 1935.

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