Memorial Day Parade- 1938
Standing at Ease facing the regiment’s War Memorial at the top of Queen’s Park, Circle on Memorial Day 1938 P1777
Troops holds a sten gun
happy countenance; posing with Sten Gun (?)
LCol Don Mackenzie
Presentation of his Portrait
Canadians In Italy – Shelling German positions at Torella
Canadians in Italy While artillery blasted away at German positions in the foreground of this picture. Maybe Spinette, or Torella north of Campobasso, Italy. [P1447] After the 1st Cdn Division had taken the town of Campobasso on 13 October 1943, they had intended to use Campobasso as a rest area preparing for the next advance. […]
Canadians Rest in Sicily
Canadians Rest in Sicily Some indication of the hilly, rough country over which Canadians fought the Germans in Sicily is given in this picture. Men of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, resting after the end of the campaign, have their dinner in the lengthening shadows of evening on the hillside of a steep valley. Fred […]
Orders Must Get Through-Italy 1943 MacDowell as dispatch rider
Orders Must Get Through Co-ordinated action by all units engaged in assault operations is vital to success, and contact between commands is often dependent on the motorcycle dispatch rider. In Italy dispatch riders with the Canadian forces rode hundreds of miles carrying orders and messages, and the Canuck riders have played an important role […]
Padre East and 48th Highlanders in Sicily – 1943
Canadians in Sicily Padre H/Capt. S.B. East, of Toronto, chats with his men of the 48th Highlanders by the side of a road on the way from Agira to Regalbuto, which Canadians captured after severe fighting. Here, in the picture, left to right, are L/Cpl. John Gray, St. Catherines, Ont.: Capt. East, Pte, Bill […]
Italian crowd surrounds 48th Highlanders piper – – 1944
Canadians in Italy Barely discernable in the centre of this milling crowd of Italians, welcoming Canadians to Matera is a Canadian Jeep. Standing on board, playing the bagpipes, is Piper Roderick Grant, 48th Highlanders 1st Battalion of Toronto. P1451
48th Highlanders Privates with pig for dinner – Italy – 1944
Canadians in Italy Fresh pork for dinner in the near future is the idea these Canadians in Italy have in mind. The pig, a black one, was purchased from a farmer by Pte. E. Conroy, Peterborough, Ont., and Pte. Albert McMillen, Toronto. P1452
Piper Roderick Grant, 48th Highlander, entertains Italians – 1944
Close up of Piper Roderick Grant, of the 48th, “gives out” with some of his best notes for the benefit of these Italians who welcomed Canadians to Matera in Southern Italy People rushed out of houses, bldgs. and cafes to crowd around the jeep and shake hands with Canadians. P1453