Which Canadian officer signed below his designated line on Japan's surrender instrument?

Lawrence Moore Cosgrave signed below his designated line on Japan's surrender instrument.

Cosgrave represented Canada at the surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. He accidentally signed below the line intended for Canada, reportedly because he was blind in one eye and misread the layout of the document.

The error affected the signatures that followed. General Richard K. Sutherland, MacArthur's chief of staff, crossed out the printed titles of the Allied nations and rewrote them by hand in their correct relative positions. Sutherland initialed the alterations, and the Japanese representatives accepted the corrected document.

The incident is a small but memorable detail of the ceremony because the surrender instrument was prepared with carefully arranged spaces for each government. Cosgrave had been wounded during World War I and lost the sight of one eye. His signature remains part of the official record of the document that formalized Japan's surrender.