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Regimental Commanding Officers - #13

Major-General George Kitching, C.B.E., D.S.O., O.St.J., C.D.

Today’s Loyal Edmonton Regiment traces its lineage back to the formation of the 101st Regiment in 1908.  Over time there have been many changes in name, organization and taskings.  One interesting thread in all this change is who commanded the regiment.  With this article we continue a series looking at those Commanding Officers.  

George Kitching was the eighth soldier to command The Edmonton Regiment after its formation in 1920 and the 13th in line since the formation of its predecessor the 101st Regiment (Edmonton Fusiliers) in 1908. He came directly from the Royal Canadian Regiment to take command of our regiment, in August of 1942, under rather unusual circumstances and left to command a brigade in December of 1942. Although with us a short time, his time with us and his career both before and after his period as CO is worth looking at. For more on his wartime career read the article in our latest newsletter at the link below.

Remember 22-3

This is the thirty-third in a series of quarterly newsletters originally recognizing 100th anniversary events of the First World War, with emphasis on Edmonton’s 49th Battalion, and 75th anniversary events of the Second World War, with emphasis on The Edmonton Regiment/The Loyal Edmonton Regiment.  These stories came to an end with our 2019-1 and 2020-3 editions respectively. However, there are still many stories to be told about our regiment, past and present, including our newest series of articles on our regimental commanding officers.  We will also be expanding our focus on the museum itself with articles related to more current events and with stories about some of the interesting artefacts and archival materials in our collection.

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