Commanding Officer
Lieutenant-Colonel Matt Lennox, CD
Lieutenant-Colonel Matt Lennox joined The Queen’s York Rangers in 2002, initially as a private, then commissioning in 2004. Within the regiment, he has held the positions of troop leader, battle captain, operations officer, adjutant, squadron commander, and deputy commanding officer. He has also held positions outside the regiment, with 32 Canadian Brigade Group Headquarters and Battle School, and 4th Canadian Division Headquarters (previously known as LFCA). In 2008, then-Lt Lennox deployed to Afghanistan as a duty officer with Task Force Kandahar Headquarters. He also had the privilege of serving as battle adjutant to the task force deputy commander, as well as liaison officer to a US Special Forces unit. In 2010, Capt Lennox worked as the senior duty officer in the Joint Task Force Central operations centre, which included Operation Cadence, the CAF’s participation in the G8/G20 Summits. Most recently, LCol Lennox moved into the position of Deputy Director, Concepts and Doctrine, at the Romeo Dallaire Centre for Peace Studies. The Dallaire Centre’s focus is facilitating CAF implementation of the Vancouver Principles on the prevention of the recruitment and use of child soldiers.
Outside of the military, LCol Lennox grew up in Orillia, Ontario, but has called Toronto his home for the last twenty years. He is a published novelist and ghostwriter. His wife, Natalie, is a lawyer and human rights investigator with the Toronto District School Board. Matt and Natalie live in Etobicoke with their three daughters: Sophie, Charlotte, and Madeline. In his spare time (what there is of it), LCol Lennox enjoys 70s country music, 90s hip hop, writing, carpentry, amateur boxing, and taking his girls up to the family cottage near Parry Sound.
Regimental Sergeant Major
Chief Warrant Officer - Matthew French, CD
CWO French joined the Governor General’s Horse Guards in 1992. He has served in every NCM position available to an armoured reconnaissance soldier since that time. He has joined in the domestic responses to both in 1999 to assist in a response to ice and snow storms in the Toronto area and most recently in 2020 as the Operations Warrant for OPERATION GLOBE which repatriated stranded Canadians at the beginning of the current pandemic. He has been tasked to 32 CBG Battle School on numerous occasions and has been an instructor or course warrant on all levels of NCM training from basic military qualification to armoured troop warrant.
CWO French transferred to the Queen’s York Rangers in 2020 as the Drill Sergeant Major and took the appointment of Regimental Sergeant Major in October 2021.