Service Record of Major Robert Nelson (Bud) George, CD. Major Robert Nelson (Bud) George, CD had a 33 year army career which started in 1935 when he joined the 1st South Alberta Regiment in Medicine Hat, Alberta as a Boy Soldier. At the outbreak of WW II, he enlisted in the Calgary Highlanders rising to the rank of Platoon Sergeant Major and later being commissioned as a lieutenant. Once overseas in England, he transferred to the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada in May 1944. He fought in Italy and Holland where he was wounded three times. He was a Company Commander at the end of the War. After the war he moved to Vancouver and stayed with the Seaforths. In 1951 he led the newly formed Seaforth Company of the 1st Canadian Highland Battalion in Germany. In 1953 the 1st CHB was disbanded and became the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Black Watch of Canada. He transferred to the Black Watch. He served in Germany, Canada and as a United Nations Military Observer in Lebanon. He retired in 1968 and lived in Ottawa. Record attached to Media and Images with a letter from MGen Bruce MacDonald, Chief of the Defence Staff