So I noticed the obituary the other day (paywalled in the Globe and Mail, not much available elsewhere, it seems) of Lt-Col Jeffrey Williams, Calgary-born Canadian soldier and military historian, who died at his home in Britain recently at the age of 91.
His military histories were retirement projects but, living to 91, he had a long retirement and made the most of it: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (1972), Byng of Vimy General and Governor-General (1983 -- it won the Canadian Biography Award as well as the GG, so others must have been more attuned to its qualities than I was), The Long Left Flank (1988). First in the Field Gault of the Patricia's (1995), Polo, The Galloping Game A History of Polo in the Canadian West (2001), and a Far from Home: A Memoir of a 20th Century Soldier (2003). He was honored with the Order of Canada too, for his services to veterans.
