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
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
Church Parade of 48th Highlanders in Italy – Fall of 1944
Church Parade of 48th Highlanders in Italy A Canadian Brigadier and four Army chaplains take the salute of the famous 48th Highlanders of Toronto, as they march past the saluting base on their way to a Church Parade in a little Italian village on the Adriatic. In the picture are :H/Major J.I. McKinney, Winnipeg, senior […]
48th advance from Regalbuto to Adrano, Sicily July 1944
Canadians in Sicily Smiling and happy, strung out in single column of route as far back into the background of this picture as the eye can reach, men of the 48th Highlanders of Canada advance from Regalbuto to Adrano. Every step along this road brought them closer to German mortar shelling. P1438
48th advance through Rimini – 21 Sep 44
Moving forward with full kit in Rimini 21 September 1944 [P1439] The location appears to be the bridge over the Marecchia River, the only bridge left intact by the Germans.
Transport Section Group Photo-Italy 1943
Group photo of Transport Section holding wheel, Italy 1943. Donated by Sgt. John Terelly [P1440] In the centre, kneeling behind the word “Transport” on the wheel is Lt Michael George, Transport Officer. Lt. George would be one of the few Highlanders to be with the battalion from the landings in Sicily in July 1943 to […]