Which Canadian officer signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on the wrong printed line?

Canadian colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on the wrong printed line.

Cosgrave represented Canada at the September 2, 1945, ceremony aboard USS Missouri. He accidentally signed below the space marked for the Canadian representative rather than directly on the designated line. Because the signatures followed a carefully arranged order, the mistake affected the placement of the remaining Allied names.

General Richard K. Sutherland, MacArthur's chief of staff, corrected the document by crossing out the preprinted titles and writing the correct titles by hand. He initialed each alteration. The Japanese delegation initially objected to the changes, but accepted them after Sutherland authenticated the corrections.

The incident did not invalidate the surrender. The completed document still recorded the capitulation of Japan and was accepted by all participating governments. Cosgrave had served in World War I and lost sight in one eye during that conflict, a detail sometimes mentioned in accounts of the signing error, although the exact cause of the mistake is not certain.