Roger Rowley
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Major General Roger Rowley, DSO, ED, CD, GCLJ, GOMLJ （12 June 1914 - 14 February 2007） was a Canadian Army officer who was awarded a Distinguished Service Order for his role in liberating Boulogne during September 1944,
and a Bar five weeks later for the capture of Breskens on the Scheldt estuary.
Rowley was born in Ottawa, Canada, on 12 June 1914.
He was educated at Ashbury College Ottawa, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
After graduation, Rowley became a bond trader.
He joined the Canadian militia and was commissioned as an officer in the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa in 1933.
In the early years of the war, Captain （ and later Major） Rowley served with the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa when they deployed overseas with the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division.
This included the regiment's part in the raid on Iceland in 1940.
Troops were sent to the northern island country to destroy facilities that might have been of use to German forces if they were to invade the island.
The raid was a success.
Rowley （rear, right） with other officers of the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa in England in 1942 The Vickers machine gun was, along with 4.
2-inch （110 mm） mortars, the primary weapon of the CH of O as it performed its duties as the Support Battalion to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division.
Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, Rowley commanded the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, during the Allied campaign in North West Europe during 1944.
The SD&G formed part of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, whose participation secured the liberation of the Channel ports of Boulogne and Calais.
The Canadians launched their attack on Boulogne on 17 September 1944.
The battle raged for six days until the remaining German prisoners surrendered on 22 ...