Assigned to the regiment on August 29, 1941. Original member.
Among the first to land in France with the 4th Canadian Armoured Division.
Died as a result from a shooting incident.
Statement from a Lance Corporal (Original member of the regiment): I am a member of the Scout Platoon of the ASH. On September 22, 1944, in the field, at about 1200 hours, I was standing at the back of our platoon truck which was parked sideways beside the wall of a house (Graafjanstraat, Belgium). I walked around the corner of the truck, between it and the wall. I was playing with a pistol, which I thought was set on saftey, when Private Wright came around the front end of the truck. When he was about six feet from me the pistol fired, the bullet struck the wall beside Wright and ricochetted, hitting him.
1 Brother in the Air Force. Sergeant Samuel Lewis Wright. 423 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force. Not reported as war dead.
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Photograph temporary burial: Eeklo Archive, Belgium.
Info from War Diary and Service Records: LAC (Library Archive Canada).
Photographs Regimental and Division patch: JM-Militaria.
Photograph headstone: Michael van de Velde.
