Returned to Canada in 1931 to London, Ont. Acting major and general staff officer. As a general staff officer, grade two, he was in charge of training of regular and militia units in his district. Worked for George Pearkes at National Defence Headquarters, which he found frustrating. Returned to the L.S.H. in Calgary after two years. Attached to the 4th Hussars in England for a short time. They had just been mechanized, and he came to believe that the day of the horse was over. Short discussion of new Canadian Leopard tanks. In 1939 commanded a mounted escort for the King.