Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Halpenny
22nd Armoured Regiment (Canadian Grenadier Guards)

We as manufacturers should not look at them (trade unionists) as the gestapo. We should become leaders. The labor man needs a little leadership. He needs a square deal … We’re better to have our laws and contracts lenient toward them. It’s when you stary to curb them we’ll find the type of though that isn’t Canadian.

(Windsor Star, 29 May 1947, 6)

Born in Winnipeg on 14 November 1909, William Walton Halpenny first joined the Fort Garry Horse as a cadet officer in 1927. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he was selected for a tank training course in England. He rejoined the Fort Garries, soon to be converted to the 10th Armoured Regiment, and went back overseas in 1942. In November, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Canadian Armoured Corps reinforcement unit and by September 1943 had been appointed new commanding officer of the 22nd Armoured Regiment (Canadian Grenadier Guards).

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