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Bertram Meryl Hoffmeister, soldier, businessman (b at Vancouver 15 May 1907). Hoffmeister commanded the Seaforth Highlanders in Sicily, the 2nd Infantry Brigade at Ortona (1943) and the 5th Canadian Armoured Division, which distinguished itself under his courageous leadership. One of a very few nonregular officers to command a division, he was appointed to take the 6th Division to the Pacific theatre (1945). When the Japanese war ended, Hoffmeister resumed his career in the BC forest industry and was president and chairman of MACMILLAN BLOEDEL LTD, BC's agent general in London and president of the Council of Forest Industries of BC. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.
Author
W.J. MCANDREW
Links to Other Sites
Major-General B.M. Hoffmeister
An overview of the military career of this intrepid World War II Canadian Army officer. From The Juno Beach Centre.
The Nature Trust of British Columbia
The website for the Nature Trust of British Columbia. Includes information about Bert Hoffmeister, their first chairman and distinguished army veteran, businessman and conservationist.
The soldiers' general: Bert Hoffmeister as military commander
A brief overview of Bert Hoffmeister’s exemplary military career. From the Royal Military College of Canada.
The Breaching of the Gothic Line
A Parks Canada website about the Canadian Army's assault on the Gothic Line in Italy during World War II, one of the most impressive accomplishments by Canada's soldiers.
UBC Hall of Remembrance
This website is dedicated to the 1951 opening of the Hall of Remembrance at the UBC War Memorial Gymnasium and to the late Major-General B.M. Hoffmeister.
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