48th Highlanders Baseball jersey
48th Highlanders Baseball jersey of the Regimental Officers Baseball team
48th Highlanders Hockey Jersey
48th Highlanders Hockey Jersey of the Regimental hockey team. Falcon in flight above a 48th Highlanders “diamond” badge.
Identification Tag of Pte. Harold C. McKay
Pressed dark brown wood identification tag of Pte. Harold C. McKay, with the service number stamped on it: C115500, the tag has a thin brown rope string attached to it with a knot through the left one of the two holes punched through the tag on the left and right side of it. Pte. Harold […]
Swagger sticks
Bundle of four swagger sticks, belonging to Colour Sgt Tom Banton. All are made of wood with a metal cap, bundled together with a white string, the first is: dark brown and larger than the others at 0.75 inch wide with a grey metal cap of 1.25 inch in length that is rounded and flairs […]
Rifle Range Shot Locator
14″ metal device with a white shot indicator for use on the rifle range. Used in the butts to indicate where the shot landed on or compared to the target. The soldier in the butts (trench with targets on rails that lifted up and down) could indicate where the shot landed without being exposed to […]
Map Case – Lt. J. M. Bowman
Map case used by Lt. J. M. Bowman Khaki coloured canvas map case – 17″ wide by 13 1/2″ high; closing flap on top 17″ x 6 1/2″; 10 metal fastening domes around perimeter and edge of flap. Canvas carry handle on top centre rear of case; metal “H” down sides and across centre of […]
Compass with case of Lt. J. M. Bowman
Compass of WWI issue. 1915 by Koehn in Geneva, Switzerland, pattern No. 20096, brass with glass window in cover. Glass has “crazed” from a sharp blow. Tan leather case with buckle, missing shoulder strap. Initials J. M. B. in black ink on cover on front side; “Lieut J M Bowman 48th Highlanders of Canada” on […]
Webley & Scott No.2 Mk.I Flare Pistol 1918 for WW1 Armored Vehicles
The Webley & Scott No.2 Mark I flare guns, often modified just prior to WW2. These were designed for use on light armoured vehicles and slide into a housing. Original date of 1918 on the left side of the barrel. The bore of the flare is 1.5 inch (3.81 cm) with a 2.75 inch (6.99 […]
Leuchtpistole M/1894
The use of purpose built handguns to fire light- and signaling pyrotechnics didn’t really catch on until the Russian-Japanese war in 1904-05, and it became a standard “tool of the trade” during the Great War. In the early days the use of the flare gun was limited to shooting flares to illuminate the battlefield at nighttime. […]
Barb Wire Cork Screw
The 36-inch (99.14 cm) screw pickets, used as supports for barbed wire defences, were introduced c. 1915 as a replacement for timber posts. Crown Iron Works Co. (Minneapolis, MN) made over 10 million of these screw post pickets for WW1, WW2 and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The French name for this type of “steel stake” […]