Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Stillman
Edmonton Regiment

And within 20 minutes His Majesty had arrived. He chatted freely to me as he passed down the line, had me introduce every one of the officers, and spoke with a number of our men. Altogether he spent more than 15 minutes with us. And what a delightful gentleman he was! Absolutely no side at all. We felt quite at home immediately. And the King remembered me from his visit to Edmonton; what do you think of that?

(Lt-Col. Stillman in Edmonton Journal, 15 Feb 1940, 11)

Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England on 16 July 1892, William George Stillman was a provincial civil servant, musician, and First World War veteran. He had immigrated to Canada in 1912, enlisted as a private in the 175th Battalion and served in France as a lieutenant with the 31st Battalion in 1918. He rejoined the militia in the early 1930s and had becoming command officer of the Edmonton Regiment shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.

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