Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon T. Roach
Toronto Scottish Regiment

He immediately in complete darkness reorganised the remnants into a half battery and had the wounded evacuated and was ready to start by zero [hour]. Throughout the operations following he displayed great gallantry in handling his guns at all times, setting a splendid example to all ranks.” Roach was wounded a month later.

(M.C. citation, 1918)

Born in Toronto on 30 December 1896, Willard Gordon Thomas Roach had volunteered with the 95th Battalion in 1915, been commissioned with the 216th Battalion in 1916, reinforced the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles in France in 1917, and earned the M.C. at the Drocourt-Queant Line in 1918 after enemy  bombardment on the assembly area before the attack.

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