Lt. Colonel Philip Abbey, well-known local communal worker, is the first Jew to attain high military rank in Canada’s active army. According to an announcement by the Department of Defense, Colonel Abbey has been appointed to command a field regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery.
Colonel Abbey served in the last war, enlisting as a gunner in the Canadian Field Artillery in 1915. He proceeded to France and was commissioned on the field of battle in 1917. After the war he joined the Non-Permanent Active Militia. Colonel Abbey was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal in 1931 and the Canadian Efficiency Decoration in 1941. A brother of the Colonel, Monroe Abbey, heads the Combined Jewish Appeal which is being launched next week to raise $558,000 including $310,000 for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and $90,000 for the United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agencies.
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