This armoury was named in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel C.L. Gammon. He was born in 1907. He sailed for England with the North Shore Regiment in July 1941, as a company second-in-command. His unit spent the next few years training in Liverpool and Scotland in preparation for the D-Day landings. On June 6, 1944, Captain Gammon commanding the Regiment's Support Company, landed on Juno Beach in the Nan Red sector.
He participated in the capture of Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer. Soon after he was promoted to major and placed in command of D Company, leading his company during the attack on the Carpiquet airfield, where the North Shore Regiment lost nearly 130 men. He later fought with his regiment in Caen and all through France. By September 1944, the regiment had advanced into Holland, where Gammon took part in the battle of the Scheldt and the fighting near the Maas River. In February 1945, they moved into Germany, fighting in the Rhineland, the Hochwald, and ended the war on German soil.
Gammon later commanded the North Shore Regiment from April 1951 to September 1954 and the renamed regiment - 2nd Battalion Royal New Brunswick Regiment (North Shore) - from October 1954 to May 1956. He died in June 1993.
