War Diaries 1st Battalion Sept 1939 to May 1943
The War Diaries of the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada from their recruitment date in Sept 1939 to May 1943, up to their departure from Scotland in June 1943 to the Landings at Pachino, Sicily. The period in England includes training at Aldershot, a brief Foray to France in 1940, and further training and […]
War Diaries 1st Battalion July 1943 to August 1945
The War Diaries of the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada from July 1943 to August 1945 are in hard copy in Box 33B. The attached pdf has the War Diaries from 10 July 1943, the day after the landings at Pachino, Sicily, to 28 January 1945 when the battalion was between the Lamone and […]
List: 48TH OVERSEAS OFFRS -Assignments upon departure for Sicily – 1943
Typed list dated 22 November 1943 of assignment of 48th Highlanders Officers when the 1st Battalion departed England for Sicily in May 1943. Assignments are to the 1st Battalion for Sicily and those left in England and assigned to other locations or units, held as reinforcement officers (LOB), transfers and returned to Canada.
List: 48th Officers in England as of 12 Jun 42
Handwritten list of 48th Highlanders officers and their assignments as of 12 June 1942: Officers in the 1st Battalion and Other officers in UK. Notepaper has 48th Highlander buckle badge crest in top centre of pages.
Part 2 Regimental Orders 48th Highlanders 1951 – 1957
Two hard bound binders of Regimental Orders Part 2 1951 – 1955 1956 – 1957
Part 2 Regimental Orders 48th Highlanders 1958 – 1961
Two hard bound binders Part 2 Orders 48th Highlanders of Canada 1958 – 1959 1960 – 1961 3 file folders with extra paper copies duplicates of records in books but partially incomplete
Part 2 Regimental Orders 48th Highlanders 1962-1964
2 hard bound binders Part 2 Orders 48th Highlanders of Canada 1962 1963 – 1964
Part 2 Regimental Orders 48th Highlanders 1965- 1969
2 hard bound binders Part 2 Orders 48th Highlanders of Canada 1965 and 1966 1967 – 1969
Part 1 Regimental Orders 48th Highlanders 1940 – 1950
two hard bound binders Part 1 Orders 48th Highlanders of Canada 48th Highlanders Records, Second Battalion 1940 – 1945 Part 1 Orders 48th Highlanders of Canada 1946 – 1950
Part 1 Orders 48th Highlanders 1951 – 1955
one hard bound binder Part 1 Orders 48th Highlanders of Canada 1951 – 1955