Kenneth Angus Munn
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Colonel Kenneth Angus Munn CD QHP MD (June 16, 1938 – May 2, 2003) was a Canadian soldier.
Munn was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Daniel James McArthur and Margaret Anne Moodie. he grew up in the neighbourhood of Westmount until the age of eight when the family moved to Alberta and he began to attend Strathcona Tweedsmere private school. He attended this school until high school when he was transferred to Central Memorial High School in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was while attending Central Memorial High school that he met Barbara Hovey, his future wife.
At the age of sixteen, Munn successfully lied about his age to the Canadian Armed Forces and joined the Black Watch regiment of Montreal in 1955. Eleven years passed with this regiment, during which Munn served two tours in Germany beginning in March 1962 and ending in June 1965. After serving with the Black Watch he successfully remustered to third field squadron in 1966 to 1968 where he served as one of the first combat divers. In 1968 Munn took his release to study physiology at the University of British Columbia. He rejoined with six Field Squadron RCE and was commissioned from the ranks in January 1970, serving as a Troop Commander and as Squadron Training Officer among other duties.
Munn (a Captain at the time) moved to Calgary in 1971 to study medicine at the University of Calgary and received his MD in 1974. During this time he joined the staff of Headquarters South Alberta District. In 1974 Munn was promoted to the rank of Major and posted to the Kings Own Calgary Regiment where he served as a squadron training commander and deputy commander until 1977. In 1977 he was again transferred and posted to 14 Service Battalion where he served as deputy commander until 1980 when he was made commanding officer and given the freedom of the City of Calgary.
In 1979 Munn received his Fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in the field of anesthesia. This was quickly followed by his multi-engine pilots license and flight surgeon status. He added to this interest by becoming qualified in hyperbaric medicine.
Munn was appointed aide-de-camp to the Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Alberta in April 1980. Munn made the choice to retire from the Militia in June 1982 and subsequently served as Vice President of the Army Cadet League of Alberta from 1982- 1984 and President of the Alberta Branch of the Defence Medical Association of Canada from 1984- 1986.
In 1991 Munn was appointed Honorary Colonel of 15 Field Ambulance and in 1994 became the first reserve anaesthesiologist to be posted on a UN relief mission in Bosnia.
Munn was elected President of the Defence Medical Association in 1996 and, that same year, was admitted to the Venerable Order of Saint John. He joined the staff of the University of Alberta Hospitals in Edmonton in 1998 where he was an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine.
Munn was a Knight Commander in the Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, past Grand Prior of the Priory of Canada, Honorary Physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. and Grand Counselor to the Sovereign Counsel and recipient of the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal.
