Lieutenant-Colonel W.T. Ibbott
Lake Superior Regiment

Offr of medium height and stocky build who has a pleasant personality and good military bearing. He impressed the Board as possessing aggressiveness, drive, leadership and alertness. Having requested the interview, he willingly discussed his case …

He states that he has had many promises of promotion by his former Comds which have not been implemented and has a keen sense of disappointment.

(Survey and Classification Board report, 1945)

Born in Lancashire, England on 13 March 1894, Walter Taylor Ibbott was a Vancouver insurance agent and adjutant in the Westminster Regiment. He had served with the 13th Battalion in France where he was wounded, earned the Military Medal, and demobilized as a lieutenant. After the Westminster Regiment arrived in the United Kingdom, in January 1942 Ibbott was promoted to second-in-command.

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