Editing Guy Simonds (section)

==Education and early military career==
Simonds attended Collegiate School in Victoria and then [[Ashbury College]] in [[Ottawa]] beginning in 1919.{{sfn|Graham|1994|p=15}} The college's dining hall is named after him.

He studied at the [[Royal Military College of Canada]] in [[Kingston, Ontario]] between 1921 and 1925,<ref name=juno>{{Cite web| title=Lieutenant-General Guy G. Simonds | website=Juno Beach Centre | url=http://www.junobeach.org/e/3/can-pep-can-simonds-e.htm | access-date=February 13, 2005}}</ref> cadet number 1596. Simonds' class was the last to be selected from nationwide exams (Simonds having been placed second) and the first after the recently ended [[World War I|First World War]] to enter a four-year course.{{sfn|Graham|1994|p=17}} At graduation he was awarded the Sword of Honour, judged the best "all rounder", placed second academically, and was generally considered the best horseman in the class.{{sfn|Graham|1994|p=24}}

He joined the [[Canadian Militia]] and was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] in 1925 as a [[second lieutenant]] into the [[Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery]],{{sfn|Graham|1994|p=25}}{{sfn|Granatstein|2005|p=149}} serving first with B Battery of the [[Royal Canadian Horse Artillery]] in Kingston, then C Battery in Winnipeg. In September 1932 (just weeks after his wedding) with the rank of [[Brevet (military)|brevet]] [[Captain (Canadian army and air force)|captain]], he attended the Long Gunnery Staff Course in England.<ref name=juno/> He was accompanied to England by his wife, and his first child was born there. He returned to Kingston in 1934. In 1936 and 1937 he attended the [[Staff College, Camberley]] in England.<ref name=juno/> Major-General [[John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort|Lord Gort]] was the commandant at the time, although he was soon replaced by Major-General [[Ronald Forbes Adam|Sir Ronald Adam]], while the instructors included Lieutenant Colonel [[William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim|William Slim]].{{sfn|Graham|1994|p=28}} Simonds worked extremely hard and thoroughly enjoyed his time there and he was deemed by his superiors to have one of the outstanding students on the two-year course. Furthermore, had he been a British officer, he would have been specially selected for an accelerated promotion in order that he may return to the college to serve as an instructor.{{sfn|Graham|1994|p=43−44}}

This was not to be, however. Promoted to [[Major (rank)|major]], he returned to the Royal Military College of Canada as an associate professor of artillery and later as instructor in tactics. The college's commandant at the time was Brigadier [[Harry Crerar]], a fellow gunner officer who was to play a significant part in Simonds's future military career, and with whom he had served under towards the end of the 1920s.{{sfn|Graham|1994|p=33}} Historian [[Jack Granatstein|J.L. Granatstein]] writes of the two men:

{{Quote|The two were not friends — a major and a brigadier could not be friends — but the older man developed some sense of Simonds's worth. That would be important in the war that began for Canada on 10 September 1939.{{sfn|Granatstein|1993|p=152}}}}

During the pre-war years, Simonds and [[E. L. M. Burns]], a future corps commander, debated concepts in the pages of [[Canadian Army Journal|Canadian Defence Quarterly]].<ref name="DDD_220">Dancocks, p. 220.</ref>