Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Salutes the following Friends of the for their support in Regiment the production of Community Initiatives Program The Patrician Mr. Vince Courtney Precision Textiles Inc. Mr. Harvey Jonkman Guthrie Woods Mr. Peter Chochrane Products Ltd. ATCO Electric 911 Supply Aqueduct Foundation The Flag Shop (Larson Family) The Shooting Edge Bonar and Bess Cooley Performance Graphics MWO Joel Turnbull Commisionaires Mr. Chanin of W.G. Northern Alberta Div. Chanin Hardwoods Ltd. Sparta Promotions Choice Marketing Maj. Daniel Gregoire Col. James L’Heureux Capt. Alex Beaulieu Capt. Andy St Laurent Mr. Robert Paterson Lt. (Ret’d) Steve Otto E E L T E 8 T A 1 E L D 9 18 E 1 - G 4 N 1 C , 19 E R R , E S U E H R P E O B D C C R N S - N A S L A E S E F R T A D C Z E N P R S L E A F E O R C N F F A R N Y F O L E L L U G E H T E IN L IC TH O G O NAT RTU LIGH FO IAN T SAN D I A N N F A A ROPE, 1945 N ST EU C TH-WE T NOR S ’ R A Y 915 I PRES, 1 , ‘17 C Y I KOREA, 1950-1953 R P T R A I N P C S S L E SORRE UNT MO 17 Y, 19 VIM NS IE M S A N O M G TO Y N IL O O IT C I U I Y S S N N E P R E I U U O A G N P N I R K N I M I L D O L I N O M S A R N L S E E I H L O M F T T I I R H THE PATRICIAN VOLUME LXXII Allied with The Rifles and The Royal Australian Regiment Colonel-in-Chief The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD Founder and the First Colonel of the Regiment Brigadier-General A. Hamilton Gault, DSO, ED, CD Colonel of the Regiment Brigadier-General V.W. Kennedy, OMM, MSM, CD (Retired) First World War era PPCLI officer’s hat badge. Photo courtesy of James Morgan. The Patrician is the Regimental Journal of Editor Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Major S.G.J. Lerch published under the authority of the Assistant Editors Regimental Executive Committee Lieutenant N.J. Browne Second Lieutenant D.A. Widmeyer Cover The Originals embarked on the R.M.S. Royal George Business Development to set sail for England, 27 September 1914. Warrant Officer W.A. Grady Layout Editor Photo Citation Corporal V.J.M. Charbonneau Unknown Table of Contents Colonel-in-Chief .......................................................................................................................................................................6 Colonel of the Regiment .........................................................................................................................................................8 Regimental Leadership 2021 ..................................................................................................................................................10 Regimental Headquarters .......................................................................................................................................................17 Awards ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 21 Promotions 2020 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Retirements (Over 20) .............................................................................................................................................................25 1 PPCLI .......................................................................................................................................................................................26 2 PPCLI .......................................................................................................................................................................................55 3 PPCLI .......................................................................................................................................................................................68 Op IMPACT................................................................................................................................................................................82 The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4 PPCLI) ........................................................................................................................ 86 French Grey Battalion .............................................................................................................................................................92 Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School..............................................................................................................95 Transition Unit Alberta and Northern Canada.................................................................................................................96 3rd Canadian Division Training Centre .............................................................................................................................. 97 The PPCLI Association President's Report ........................................................................................................................ 98 2020 Hamilton Gault Memorial Fund Educational Bursary Report ........................................................................... 100 The Hamilton Gault Memorial Fund................................................................................................................................... 102 The PPCLI Association Branches .........................................................................................................................................105 Top 10 Reasons to Join the PPCLI Association............................................................................................................ 109 The PPCLI Foundation............................................................................................................................................................ 111 Kit Shop....................................................................................................................................................................................... 112 PPCLI Museum and Archives ...............................................................................................................................................114 PPCLI Second World War Veterans......................................................................................................................................116 With the Princess Pats in Korea............................................................................................................................................ 118 The Art of War............................................................................................................................................................................119 Floods, Fires, Sesame Street, and The Nobel Peace Prize................................................................................................ 120 The Retirement Statue..............................................................................................................................................................124 Colours........................................................................................................................................................................................ 125 The Rifles ....................................................................................................................................................................................126 PPCLI Living History Unit..................................................................................................................................................... 132 2483 PPCLI RCACC.................................................................................................................................................................133 The Saltoun & St Anne’s Church Connections to the PPCLI ........................................................................................ 136 A Patrica Remembered.............................................................................................................................................................137 Gordon Smith Remembered ..................................................................................................................................................138 Remembering Christie Blatchford (1951 – 2020) ..............................................................................................................139 Serving Patricias .......................................................................................................................................................................140 Retirements (Under 20) .......................................................................................................................................................... 159 Last Post ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 160 Colonel-in-Chief The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD My Dear Patricias, 2020 is a year like no other in our lifetimes. It has now been almost a year that the whole country has lived in a lockdown which nobody could have ever predicted. Our country -Canada - and the entire world have been fighting a war against an enemy known as COVID-19. As soldiers, you have been prepared