Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters CMM, DSO, MC, CD, nicknamed "Rad" (January 11, 1920 – April 21, 2015), was a tank commander in the Canadian Army.

His unit may have killed "tank ace" Michael Wittmann of the 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion, though there is no definitive proof.

Radley-Walters was awarded both the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross and for his outstanding leadership and gallantry as a squadron commander.

[2] From July 1945, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and commanded the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment as part of the Allied Occupation Force.

He attended NATO Defence College in Paris and was assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe from June 1961 to July 1962.

There is a two-part article discussing Radley-Walters' leadership style in the Canadian Military Journal (Vol.

In 2004, in recognition of Rad's extraordinary contribution to the liberation, the town of Buron in Normandy, France renamed a small municipal park in his honour.