List of Royal Military College of Canada People - Notable Graduates

Notable Graduates

Royal Military College of Canada is prestigious and has had many notable alumni (Shown with college numbers).

# Name Grad Significance
6508 Major General John L. Adams (Ret'd) 1965 Chief, Communications Security Establishment
626 Major Augustus Waterous Agnew 1904 Canadian soldier, Died September 17, 1916, during the Great War
Lieutenant Wallace Lloyd Algie VC c 1898-1902 Victoria Cross citation, The London Gazette, January 31, 1919
2510 Brigadier General Edward Amy ‘Ned’ (Ret'd) DSO, an OBE, MC, Canadian Decoration, American Bronze Star, Legion d'honneur 1936 one of Canada's most decorated soldiers
Captain Frederick Anderson (1868–1957) 1890 chief hydrographer of Canada
1266 2nd Lieutenant Frederick Henry Anderson MC 1916 Canadian soldier, died May 15, 1918, during the Great War
433 Major General Thomas Victor Anderson, DSO, CD 1900 Canadian soldier, Chief of the General Staff, head of Canadian Army 1938-1940
951 Captain Edward Davey Ashcroft 1912 Canadian soldier, died on November 30, 1917, during the Great War
1007 Captain Frederick Graeme Avery MC 1913 Soldier died April 13, 1918, during Great War;
427 Captain Edward C Baker 1900 Canadian soldier, died on September 19, 1916, during the Great War.
7632 Lieutenant Colonel Gunars Balodis (Ret'd) 1968 co-founder of (c) Music for Young Children (MYC) with his wife Frances Balodis
1828 Brigadier Ted G.E. Beament, CM OBE, GCStJ, ED, Czechoslovakian MC 1925-29 lawyer, Officer Commanding Khaki University during World War II(principal).
2671 Lieutenant Duncan Peter Bell-Irving 1913 BC Land Surveyors Roll of Honour
Brigadier-General George Gray Bell, OC, M.B.E., CD, Ph.D. (May 24, 1920–October 15, 2000) 1943 Canadian soldier, civil servant, and academic
765 Staff Captain James Knowles Bertram 1909
940 Captain Henry Ewart Bethune MC 1912 Killed September 30, 1918, during the Great War
1472 Judge Sherburne Tupper Bigelow 1918 Canadian Horseracing Hall of Fame, (1991)
2364 Air Commodore Leonard Birchall C.M., O.B.E., DFC, CD, OofO(Ret'd)(1915–2004) 1933 Second World War hero, "Saviour of Ceylon", Executive Officer at York University
6219 Dr. Robin Boadway 1964 economist, author, Rhodes Scholar 1964
543 Lieutenant Colonel Howard L Bodwell Companion of the CMG DSO 1901 soldier, died January 15, 1919, during the Great War.
1016 Captain William Otway Boger DFC 1913 soldier, died August 10, 1918, during the Great War.
845 Captain Hedleigh St George Bond RMC 1912 soldier, died August 15, 1917, during the Great War.
1434 Dr. Hugh Samuel Bostock RMC 1918 geologist
2310 Colonel Harry Fitz-Gibbon Boswell, OBE 1933–1937 Awarded War Cross with Sword (Nor: Krigskorset med Sverd),highest ranking Norwegian gallantry decoration:
8790 General Jean Boyle (Ret'd) CMM, CD 1971 fighter pilot, and businessman.
2375 Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Buchanan MC with 2 bars 1934 soldier, politician
1032 Lieutenant-General E. L. M. Burns C0C, DSO, OBE, MC, CD (Ret'd) (1897–1985) 1914 1981 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace
246 Major General Sir Henry Edward Burstall CB, 1887-89 Canadian general, Burstall, Saskatchewan is named in his honour.
Brigadier General James Sutherland Brown Canadian military officer who drafted a contingency war plan in 1921 to invade and occupy several American border cities.
1325 Captain Lorne Carr-Harris 1917 goalie on the Britain team which won the bronze medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics.
82 Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers 1883 militia officer; founder of the Canadian Signal Corps; governor of Queen’s College School of Mining and Kingston General Hospital
703 Brigadier Sir Charles Frederick Carson, CBE, MC, 1905-09
18095 Dr. Sylvain Charlebois 1992 Dean, Professor, Researcher, Food distribution, policy, University of Guelph
2272 Brigadier General Arthur G. Chubb DSO, CD 1932 Soldier, Author, Senior Military Advisor of the Canadian Delegation to the International Truce Commission in Vietnam
6523 Ambassador Terence Colfer (Ret'd) 1965 former Canadian Ambassador to Iran 1999-2003 and to Kuwait 1996-1999
323 Lieutenant-General Sir George Norton Cory KBE, CB, DSO 1891-95
851 Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave DSO 1912 Representing Canada, signed WWII Japanese Instrument of Surrender (1945)
749 General, The Honourable Harry Crerar PC, CH, CB, DSO, KStJ, CD 1909 army officer, Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) in 1940
2277 Alexander R. (Sandy) Cross 1932 rancher, Rothney Farm became Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation area - a 4,800-acre (19 km2) day use natural area south west of Calgary, Alberta.
7860 Lieutenant General (Ret'd) the Hon. Roméo Dallaire O.C., CMM, G.O.Q., C.S.M. CD, LL.D. 1969 Senator, Awarded Vimy Award by the Conference of Defence Associations, June 1995. Awarded the United States Legion of Merit, January 1996; author, academic
676 Captain Robert Clifford Darling 1907 He was the first Canadian soldier to be killed overseas (19 April 1915 aged 28) during the Great War, but buried at home. He died on of wounds sustained on 23 March 1915 in defence of Ypres, Belgium.
Lieutenant (ret) Coningsby Dawson 1914 Novelist and Soldier, Canadian Field Artillery
7543 Senator Joseph A. Day 1968 retired from Royal Canadian Air Force; lawyer, Liberal Senator for New Brunswick 2001.10.04 -
268 Lieutenant Colonel (ret'd) Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé C.B.E., 1892 soldier, nobleman, academic, Director of Canadian Ordnance Services, France
4860 General (Ret'd) John de Chastelain O.C., CMM, CD, CH 1960 former Chief of the Defence Staff; participant in Northern Ireland peace process; Scouts Canada's National Council and Substance Abuse Task Force. former Canadian Ambassador to the United States.
221 Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell 1886-90 Major-General with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.
17324 Sharon Donnelly, CD 1990 2000 & 2004 Olympic teams, triathlon
2082 Honorable Brigadier General C. M. (Bud) Drury PC, QC, C.B.E., DSO 1929 former soldier, businessperson, politician
19828 John-James Ford 1995 diplomat, author 'Bonk on the Head' which won 2006 Ottawa Book Award
8276 Doctor Marc Garneau C.C., CD, Ph.D., F.C.A.S.I. 1970 served as first Canadian astronaut (1984) aboard space shuttles Challenger and Endeavour, logged nearly 700 hours in space; NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1997,
805 Honourable Colin W. G. Gibson PC, MC,VD, LL.D. 1909-11 lawyer, Member of Parliament
147 Colonel Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard, K.C.M.G. 1882-86 National Historic Person of Canada (1938); military engineer, constructed railways in Africa

22458 Captain Nichola Goddard, MSM (1980–2006) 2002 First female Canadian soldier killed in action, in Afghanistan, Nichola Goddard scholarship in her honour
599 Lt. Col. Leroy F. Grant (Entered RMC 1902) 1905 inducted in 1998 into Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame as Builder Sailing

Major General Garnet Hughes CB; DSO 1909 Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1918 1st Canadian Division; 5th Canadian Division

Awards
23350 Captain Simon Mailloux 2006 First Canadian soldier amputee to deploy on a combat mission. Was previously injured on a tour as platoon commander in Kandahar.
2087 Senator John Morrow Godfrey 1929 Canadian lawyer and politician
1681 Walter L. Gordon 1926 public servant, politician, author

5105 Doctor Jack "JL" Granatstein O.C., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C. 1961 Canadian historian
729 Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Edward Grassett CB, DSO, MC 1906-09 Royal Engineers, Knighted 1945
8816 Ambassador Marius Grinius 1971 Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland
13738 Colonel Chris Hadfield CD (Ret'd) 1982 Canadian astronaut
8919 Ronald Halpin 1971 former Ambassador to Hungary
313 George Henry Ronald Harris, C.E. 1894 mining engineer, lived at Eldon House
Hon John Gabriel Hearn 1884 businessman and political figure in Quebec
1976 Hon George Hees PC, O.C. (1910–1996) 1927 former Minister of Veterans Affairs Canada, Ambassador-at-large for the Canadian International Development Agency Food Aid Program
1104 Wilfrid Heighington K.C. 1915 lawyer, poet, soldier
Lt. Alexis Helmer was killed in action the Second Battle of Ypres. His burial inspired John McCrae to write the poem, In Flanders Fields, which was written on May 3, 1915.
168 General Sir William Charles Gifford Heneker 1884-8
2XX Colonel (ret'd) William Josiah Hartley Holmes 1891 Canadian soldier, surveyor, civil engineer; Holmes Inlet on the coast of British Columbia was named in his honour in 1934.
2162 Brigadier General John Richard Hyde (15 November 1912–15 July 2003) 1930 to 1934. Canadian soldier, lawyer, provincial politician, judge.
21364 Captain Jeremy Hansen 1999 Canadian astronaut, CF-18 fighter pilot
175 Brigadier General George Napier Johnston CBCMG, DSO 1888 Canadian Army officer, New Zealand General,
Major-General Rod Keller CD, C.B.E. Canadian Army Officer, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division;Kelowna, British Columbia alderman
138 General Sir George Macaulay Kirkpatrick K.C.B., K.C.S.I. 1882-85 Canadian soldier, Royal Engineers knighted
Lawrence Lambe 1883 Invertebrate Palaeontologist, Geological Survey
2399 Rear-Admiral William Landymore 1934 Canadian naval officer
2774 Bert Lawrence 1952 Canadian politician and lawyer.
2585 Sir Edwin Leather KCompanion of the Order of St Michael and St George, KCVO 1937-9 Former Governor of Bermuda, former Chair of the Executive Committee of Canadian Red Cross
313 John "Jack" Edwards Leckie, DSO, French Croix de Guerre 1889–1893 soldier (WWI), mining engineer, explorer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
14872 Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Lemieux 1985 federal politician, Conservative Party Whip
87 Lieutenant Colonel Reuben Wells Leonard 1883 soldier, civil engineer, railroad and mining executive, philanthropist
1246 General Sir Charles Loewen, GCB, KBE, DSO 1916-18 military leader, knighted
151 Major Gen Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell KCB, CMG, DSO 1883-86 military leader, knighted, police officer, soldier
2102 John Keiller MacKay (RMC 1929) 1929 Former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
236 Brigadier General Duncan Sayre MacInnes DSO CMG 1887–1891 military leader, aviation engineer, Duncan Sayre MacInnes scholarship
3528 General Paul David Manson O.C., CMM, CD (Ret'd) 1956 military leader, business executive and volunteer; former Chief of Defence Staff
Paul C. Marriner Director, Fly Fishing Canada; Team Canada member at 10 World Fly Fishing Championships
H17417 John Ross Matheson, O.C., CD, QC, LL.M., LL.D. 1936 Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician who helped develop Canadian flag & Order of Canada.
Brigadier George Arnold McCarter C.B.E. 1916
  • CBE for recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy (30 December 1944).
  • Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe (4. April 1946).
1921 Commissioner George McClellan 1929 former Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1963-1967
Colonel Charles Wesley Weldon McLean D.S.O. 1899 Member of Parliament, UK
1865 Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret'd) Theodore Meighen 1925 Lawyer and philanthropist
1925 Maxwell Charles Gordon Meighen, 05216 financier, businessman
2290 Brigadier General (Ret'd) Dollard Ménard (1913–1997) 1932 Story of bravery at Dieppe inspired a Canadian WWII poster “Ce qu’il faut pour vaincre”
H1866 Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Cecil Merritt, VC (1908–2000) 1925 Politician, awarded a Victoria Cross
1800 Hartland Molson, O.C., OBE, D.C.L. 1924 Former brewer, owner of the Montreal Canadiens
7301 Earle Morris 1967 3-time Brier representative, coach of the Australian national curling team
G0053 Lieutenant Colonel Alex Morrison, MSC, CD (Ret'd) 1980 awarded 2002 Pearson Medal of Peace
4393 Doctor Desmond Morton O.C., Ph.D., F.R.S.C. 1959 Canadian historian, awarded the first RMC degree Rhodes Scholar 1959
Lieutenant-General John Carl Murchie CB, C.B.E., CD (1895–1966) 1915 Canadian Chief of the General Staff
Leonard Nicholson C.M., MBE Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
G0957 Doctor Lynette Nusbacher 1994 Canadian military historian
2592 Edmund Boyd Osler (1919) 1937 Pilot, Squadron Leader, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg, Manitoba South Centre 1968-72 Insurance executive, writer
13 Commissioner/Major General Aylesworth Bowen Perry 1876 Commissioner North-West Mounted Police Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1890-1923
5__ Frederic Hatheway Peters O.B.E. 1904 Surveyor-General of Canada (1924 to 1948); Mount Peters, BC and Lake Peters, AB named in his honour
2184 Rear Admiral Desmond Piers C.M., CD, DSC, Mil, KLj, RCN 1930 first RMC graduate to join the Royal Canadian Navy
1649 Lieutenant-Governor Edward Chester Plow, C.B.E., DSO, CD, (September 28, 1904 – April 25, 1988) 1921 a Canadian soldier and Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia.
1309 Mr Richard Porritt 1917 inducted into Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
6757 Mr Mike U. Potter 1966 CMR RMC businessman founded Cognos and philanthropist who founded Vintage Wings of Canada .
126 Philip Primrose Former police officer, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
14344 Captain Bruce Poulin (Ret’d) 1992 Queen's Jubilee Medal for volunteerism
E1855 Major David N Quick, SMV, CD, 2003 Star of Military Valour, Afghanistan
Brigadier Sir Godfrey D. Rhodes CB, CBE, and DSO 1903-07 knighted
123 Major-General Sir Dudley Howard Ridout, KBE, CB, CMG (1866–1941) 1881-85 Boer War and World War soldier knighted
891 Major General John Hamilton Roberts CB, DSO, MC 1914 Second World War General
62 William H. Robinson 1883 first Royal Military College of Canada alumnus KIA
1874 Major Edward Britton Rogers 1925-29 athlete, soldier killed in action at Caen, France, on July 23, 1944.
2802 Robert Gordon Rogers 1940 Former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
1815 Air Commodore Arthur Dwight Ross GC, CBE, CD (Ret'd) (1907–1981) 1928 Second World War George Cross recipient
Arthur Leith Ross 1896 awarded the Queen's South African Medal with 4 clasps. Died on 26 August 1906, of blackwater fever

in Nigeria, where he served as Chief Transport Officer, with the Northern Nigeria Regiment, African Frontier Force.
Jeffrey Russell 1920 inducted into Canadian Football Hall of Fame
Major Henri-Thomas Scott 1903 soldier, educator, businessperson, advocate for physical education, playgrounds, and camps
Brigadier Gordon Sellar 1943 served with the Calgary Highlanders during the battle of Walcheren Island, battle of the Scheldt Estuary; command of the Black Watch's 1st Battalion in April 1963
2420 General Frederick Ralph Sharp 1934 former chief of the defence staff
1596 Lieutenant General Guy Simonds C.C., CB, C.B.E., D.S.O., CD 1925 Commander of the 2nd Canadian Corps in NW Europe, 1944-45. Former Chief of the General Staff. For a lifetime of military service to Canada.

52 William Grant Stairs 1882 Explorer
1089 Major-GeneralCharles Ramsay Stirling Stein 1915 Commanding Officer of the 5th Canadian Armored Division from January 1943 to October 1943
William J. Stewart 1883 Canada's first Chief Hydrographic Surveyor, 1863-1925. Stewart Island, Algoma and Stewart Rock, Owen Channel, Manitoulin were named after him.
Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart
Major-General Herbert Cyril Thacker (1870–1953) 1890 Canada's first military attaché, sent to the Far East during Russo-Japanese War 1904
RCNSE54 Rear Admiral Robert Timbrell 1937 Awarded Distinguished Service Cross during World War II
995 Captain George Evelyn Tinling MC 1913-15 KIA 4 October 1917 during the Great War
Brigadier-General Kenneth Torrance MC, OBE 1896-1948 1913-14
  • OBE in 1942 for his bravery during World War II while serving with the besieged forces in Singapore
  • He spent 3 ½ years in a Japanese POW camp
  • He owned a Gothic Revival stone mansion named Ker Cavan c. 1850 in Guelph, Ontario as a summer home 1945-48
  • listed on the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute Wall of Fame.
88 Major General Sir Philip Geoffrey Twining KCMG, COB, MVO 1880-83 Canadian soldier, knighted
162 Major-General Sir Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee 1883-86
14164 Lieutenant Colonel Michael Voith CMR 1979-1981 RMC 1981-1983 engineering adviser and the DART commanding officer.
1633 General Christopher Vokes, CB, CBE, DSO, CD (1904–1985) 1925 World War II operational commander

Christopher Vokes (RMC 1925)
1940 Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Alexander Vokes 1926–1930 Soldier, Commanding Officer of the 9th Canadian Armoured Regiment wounded in action and died in hospital on September 4, 1944.
11027 Brigadier General Ken Watkin 1976 Judge Advocate General
2357 Brigadier General Denis Whitaker DSO, C.M., ED, CD 1933 leader in military, sport, business and community service, co-author of 2 Canada's military history books
96 James White, Geographer, deceased Produced 1st edition of Atlas of Canada
758 Brigadier General Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler, 1907-10 Military Officer, surveyor, adventurer, 1921 Mount Everest expedition
2951 General Ramsey Muir Withers CMM, CD (Ret'd) 1952 Military Officer
352 Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood 1896 died on 11 November 1899 of wounds suffered in action during the Boer War.
Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood 1912 former Commissioner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1938-1951|-
Zachary Taylor Wood 1882 office holder, militia officer, and Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman
1 Alfred George Godfrey Wurtele 1875
  • RMC instructor in mathematics and geometrical drawing and lieutenant of cadets, RMC 1882-97
  • The “Number 1 Fund”, which commemorates AGG Wurtele and all of the other Wurteles who have graced this College, is used for the annual maintenance of The Memorial Arch.
47 LCol Ernest Frederick Wurtele 1882 succeeded the seigniories of Bourg Marie de l'Est and De Guir, commonly known as River David, Yamaska Quebec.
RNCC43 Commander Alfred Charles Wurtele RNCC 1913 Counsellor and Reeve of Esquimalt.
990 LCol William Godfrey H. Wurtele M.C. 1915 awarded a M.C. "For conspicuous gallantry during eight days of the operations, in which he commanded his company."
2551 Group Captain Douglas Wurtele 1936 a fighter pilot during World War II.
2552 Major (Ret'd) Bill Young 1936 He and his wife Joyce Young, are philanthropists

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