Capt. A. W. Sutherland, Auxilliary Services Officer watches as Major General H.L.N. Salmon, MC, takes the kick-off before the recent Canadian Army Overseas soccer championship in England. The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada defeated the Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE) 3 to 1 in the finals on 14 April 1943 From the Regimental History (page 143): On 14 April, two days after the unit had settled into some large boys' schools in the Seaford area, the Seaforths won the Canadian Army Soccer Championship. Ever since the battalion had come overseas it had had a good but not outstanding sports record. In 1940 and 1941 it had participated in brigade, divisional and corps meets, but it was not until 1942 and early 1943 that the Seaforths began to gain some hard won senior prizes. Aside from a top-flight rugger and soccer team, the Seaforths could also field a good cricket XI and played numerous games with British teams, both civilian and military. Baseball, track and field sports, boxing and other sports all had their adherents, but the chance to see a good soccer game, especially if played against a rival battalion such as the Canadian Scottish Regiment, would bring out a large crowd with plenty of cheering and heckling from both British Columbia units." Major General Harry Leonard Nowell Salmon MC & Bar (February 9, 1894 – April 29, 1943) was a soldier and officer during the First and Second World Wars. Salmon was assigned to the 28th Battalion, CEF in WW I in 1914. Salmon was caught up in the bloody deadlocked period of the war in northern France around the Somme and Ypres. He was to be decorated twice for gallantry, receiving the Military Cross and Bar. Between the wars, from 1920 to 1929, he performed regimental duty with The Royal Canadian Regiment and served in staff appointments. During this period he also attended the Imperial Defence College in Camberley, England. He joined the staff of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division in January 1940, attaining rank of Lt. Col. in February of that year, and commanding the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (colloquially known as the "Hasty P's"). Following the disaster at Dunkirk which culminated on June 4 of that year, Lt. Col. Salmon led the Hasty P's in a June 16 operation to Brest, France to assist in the withdrawal of the Canadian elements of the second British Expeditionary Force. The next day, as word was received that Paris had fallen, and just a week before France herself would fall, Salmon's regiment began a brief expedition to engage the rapidly moving invasion that was sweeping into France. Events moved unpredictably fast, and the unit was soon ordered to return to England along with the British Expeditionary Force. While aboard ship awaiting departure to Plymouth, the regiment engaged with harassing German aircraft. They were later credited with being the first Canadian soldiers to bring down a German aircraft during World War II, as the eager troops fired their first shots at a low flying plane that attempted an opportunistic attack of the harbour. On September 8, 1942 Salmon took command of the 1st Canadian Division (He was at the time leading the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade). Accounts at the time recorded his reputation as "one of the best trainers of soldiers in any army." In 1943 Salmon was appointed to head the Canadian involvement in Operation Husky, the allied invasion of Sicily. A planning staff was built around General Salmon in Norfolk House, where some of the highest members of the allied staff were situated. On April 29, 1943, Salmon, along with other important participants in the planning process prepared to embark for a key planning meeting in Cairo, Egypt. The Hudson IIIA aircraft embarked with the staff and was seen approaching for a landing on the East/West runway at Chivenor, when the aircraft stalled and crashed, killing all on board. Major General Simonds took over command of the 1st Canadian Division and ultimately led the Canadian forces in Operation Husky.