About the Book    "Once a Patricia is a gripping personal account about The Second World War. From The Royal Military College, Wartime Training Centres, through Sicily and Italy with the Eighth Army, and finally to Holland, Sydney Frost brings together a fascinating and absorbing story. He tells it exactly "as it was" and we see what it all meant - at the time - to this gallant young officer. With sensitivity and perception he records the gamut of emotions through courage to sorrow to triumph that became the reality of a fighting soldier´s life. And through it all runs the consuming passion for his Regiment - his home. His autobiography will be invaluable to historians but will interest too, so many Canadians who shared his service in the War and who will relate to his story. It will equally be of value to those of a younger generation who seek wider knowledge of Canada´s part in one of the great struggles of our time."
      Cameron Ware (MGen C.B. Ware, DSO, CD)
      former Colonel-of-the-Regiment
      Princess Patricia´s Canadian Light Infantry

  "The telling of his tale in the first person, and his retrospective glances bring poignancy, relevance, humour, fright, pain and pleasure into balance. The result is a story that veterans, serving soldiers and citizens will find entertaining, instructive and perceptive."
       MGen. H.C. Pitts, MC, CD
      Colonel Commandant Canadian Infantry

"Colonel Frost´s Once a Patricia is one of the best autobiographies to come out of the Second World War. This book shows us the campaigns in Italy and North-West Europe through the eyes of an Infantry junior officer, and the result is both vivid and compelling. Once a Patricia is in the same class as Robert Graves´ Good-bye to All That or Siegfried Sassoon´s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer."
      LCol. D.J. Goodspeed
      former Chief Historian in the Directorate of History,
      National Defence Headquarters

About the Author    Charles Sydney Frost attended the Royal Military College of Canada. Upon graduation in 1942 he was commissioned into the PPCLI and served with the regiment in Europe. By 1945 he was acting second-in-command of the battalion. He was twice wounded in action.
   After the war he entered Osgoode Hall Law School, then, following graduation in 1949, he practiced law in Toronto. He was appointed Queen´s Counsel in 1960.
   His military service continued in the Royal Regiment of Canada which he commanded from 1959 to 1962. He subsequently served as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel and Honorary Colonel for 15 years.
   He served as president of the RMC Club of Canada for the year 1971-1972. He was also a member of the Canadian Military Colleges Advisory Board to the Minister of National Defence, 1975-1978, and was Chairman of the Sub-Committee responsible for RMC affairs. He received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from RMC in 1976.
   Colonel Frost was awarded the Canadian forces decoration and two bars, the Canadian Silver Jubilee Medal, 1977, and the Commemorative Medal for 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation, 1992. Since 1978 he has been a member of the Senate of PPCLI.
   In July, 2004, Colonel Frost will be granted honorary citizenship of Ispica, Sicily, where he became the first democratic Mayor in July, 1943.

   Titles by Colonel Sydney Frost include Once a Patricia, 2004, Always a Patricia, 2004, and A Life Worthwhile, 1994.