Claude Ashling in 48th Highlander Uniform

Studio photograph, indicated by donation document to be of Claude Ashling in full uniform (including swagger stick, sporran, and spats). Dark wooden frame is 17″ x 12.5″. Glass is cracked in upper and lower right hand corners, with one crack running vertically across the glass.

Claude Ashling and Other Gottingen Prisoners of War (Photo)

Photograph in frame, 13.5″ x 9″. Image is of prisoners in prisoner of war camp at Gottingen, Germany. According to the donation documents for the item, the individual who is first from the right in the front row is Claude Ashling.    

Claude Ashling Family Photo Album

Black cardstock and paper photo album, 11.5″ x 9.5″,  of the Ashling family, including Sgt Claude Ashling. Includes several photos of Sgt Ashling in 48th Highlanders uniform. Largely family photos of individuals, children, vacations, and their home.

1st Bn Pipe Band at Seaford Sussex – 1 June 1943

Pipes and Drums at Seaford, Sussex, England just weeks before sailing from Gourock, Scotland for the landings at Pachino, Sicily on 9 July 1943. Front row: Morrison, Grand, PM A Anderson, Lt Col Johnston, A. Dewar, Donaldson, Blyth Middle row: Rennie, McVey, MacDonald, J. Raffin, Dewar, Stevenson, Boyle, Marr Back Row: Cook, Edminston, B. Elms, […]

15th Battalion Pipes and Drums at Noeux-les-Mines

“A church parade was held in the Y.M.C.A. in Noeux­ les­ Mines on the evening of the 12th, and, as the sun was out at last, the officers, sergeants and the pipe band, posed for photographs.” P.240, K. Beattie Pipe Major Alexander Reid Keith, third row, standing, far left. Lance Sergeant Piper, Alexander Austin Newlands, […]

Photo Album (Gottingen/Gottengen)

Photo album, cover is 4.75″ x 7″, book is 2″ thick. Brown paper cover with darker markings, brown paper inside, bound with green yarn. Writing on inside cover states “91 photos in book” and that it is “prop. of Sjt AP Dunbar Machine Gun Sec. 15th Can Int Batt Gottingen  — Show Camp. All’neutrals shown […]

Photo – Col J. M. Lowndes and Lt. Col R. E. Read

8″ x 11″ colour photo Col. Lowndes and Lt. Col. Read at Queen’s Park on Nov. 11 2012 before lining up for a Remembrance Parade to the regiment’s War Memorial at the head of Queen’s Park Circle.