Lieutenant-Colonel W.J. Moogk
Royal Winnipeg Rifles

For a long time, people here considered us a rowdy crowd of over-paid, over-sexed soldiers … At one time we had higher figures in crime and venereal disease in the Canadian army than all the rest, with only one-third the number of people the others had.

(Quoted in North Bay Nugget, 16 Dec 1952, 5)

Born on 18 August 1910 in Waterloo, Ontario, Willis John Moogk graduated from RMC in 1934 and immediately took a commission with the Royal Canadian Regiment, explaining his motivation: “he had become used to eating three meals a day.” He served as adjutant when the RCR went overseas in December 1939 and was promoted to major six months later. Four of his children would be born in England while he was stationed there with his wife.

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