Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hierome Sankey, ED, QC.  Born in Toronto, Ontario on 14 December 1899, the son of Villiers Matthew Sankey and Anne Nesbitt Ponton.

Richard followed his father Major Villiers Sankey into the Queen’s Own and served the Regiment for over 25 years.  His nephew Richard Sankey Malone, OBE also served with the QOR and rose to the rank of Brigadier General after the Second World War.

During the First World War, he attended Clifton College, Bristol, England and left to join the Irish Guards as a guardsman. Following cessation of hostilities he returned to Canada.

On 7 September 1939 he married Emma Isobel Godfrey.

With the reformation of the reserve army in Canada, he was shortly commissioned in the Queen’s Own, serving as adjutant, company commander, and second in command.

At the outbreak of war in 1939 he joined the reserve 3rd Battalion of the Queen’s Own which went on active service in 1942 under his command. The battalion was eventually disbanded to provide reinforcements for the invasion of Germany.  Colonel Sankey then proceeded to Great Britain on a tour of duty and because of age, retired.

Lieutenant Colonel Sankey died suddenly in Toronto on 12 Jan 1966 and is buried in St James Cemetery, Toronto.