Samuel Findlay Clark

He enrolled in the Canadian Army in 1933, joining the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals as a lieutenant.^[2]

In 1938, he was promoted to captain and posted to the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) as an associate professor of electrical and mechanical engineering.^[2] At the time, Harry Crerar was the RMC commandant and Guy Simonds was the commander of a cadet company.^[2] He was appointed adjutant of the I Canadian Corps Signals.^[2]

He served in World War II, initially as commanding officer of 5th Canadian Armoured Division Signals Regiment, and from 1942 as a general staff officer at Canadian Military Headquarters in London.^[2] In 1943 he was made chief signals officer at the headquarters of II Canadian Corps and served in North West Europe.^[2]

In 1945 he became Deputy Chief of the General Staff in Ottawa before becoming a member of the Military Committee of the Western European Union and then of NATO.^[2] He became Quartermaster-General of the Canadian Army in 1951 and general officer commanding Central Command at Oakville, Ontario in 1955.^[2] He was appointed Chief of the General Staff in 1958.^[2]

From until 1 October 1968 until 24 March 1973, Clark served as colonel commandant of the new Communications and Electronics Branch.^[3] He died in 1998.^[4]