Comments on: Eight Cantleys and one Cantlie in the First World War https://legionmagazine.com/eight-cantleys-and-one-cantlie-in-the-first-world-war/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:44:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Earl Chapman https://legionmagazine.com/eight-cantleys-and-one-cantlie-in-the-first-world-war/#comment-55071 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:25:00 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=55493#comment-55071 Actually, Cantlie did not suffer from “battle fatigue” and nor did he ship himself home in 1917. By Nov 1916, approaching 50, he was considered too old to command an infantry battalion in the field, and, to his great disappointment, he was appointed commanding officer of the 20th Reserve Battalion in England, responsible for providing reinforcements to Montreal-based front line battalions in France & Belgium. He remained with the 20th Reserve until the end of the war, although he did return to Canada on leave. His DSO was awarded for his gallant services at Mount Sorrel (June 1916). His only son, Stephen Douglas Cantlie, commanded the 1st Battalon, Black Watch of Canada, during WWII (1942-43).

]]> By: Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/eight-cantleys-and-one-cantlie-in-the-first-world-war/#comment-55070 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:31:00 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=55493#comment-55070 In reply to Cameron McKInnon.

No, Lieutenant-Colonel S.S.T. Cantlie of the Black Watch is not George S. Cantlie’s son, according to this obituary:

CANTLIE, Lieutenant Colonel, STUART STEPHEN TUFFNEL, E D, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada. 25 July 1944. Age 36. Son of Lt.-Col. James Alexander Cantlie and Anne Cantlie; husband of Muriel Temple Cantlie, of Montreal, Province of Quebec. Grave Ref. X. D. 7.

—Editor

]]> By: Cameron McKInnon https://legionmagazine.com/eight-cantleys-and-one-cantlie-in-the-first-world-war/#comment-55069 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:22:00 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=55493#comment-55069 Was George Cantlie the father of the Lt Col of the Black Watch killed at Verrieres ridge in WW2?

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