Obituary Chipman, Thomas Brown and Chipman, Cara Bernice-2022, Dec 20
Obituaries for Thomas Brown Chipman DOD 20 December 2022, age 94 Served with 48th Highlanders of Canada 1949-51 and 1st Canadian Highland Battalion, 1952-54 As a Lieutenant when Canada sent a brigade to the British Army of the Rhine as a NATO commitment. Mrs. Chipman, Cara Bernice “Bobbie” DOD December 26, 2022 Former member […]
Nursing Sister Jean Elizabeth Sword, medals and photograph
Medals: 1. Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamels, mounted on original investiture bow; 2. 1914-15 Star (N. Sister J. E. Sword. Can: A.M.C.); 3. British War Medal (N. Sister J. E. Sword.) 4. Victory Medal (N. Sister J. E. Sword.) Photograph: Nursing Sister J E Sword in Bluebird nursing uniform. Jean […]
Brigadier John Pollands Girvan, CBE, DSO, MC, VD, (Croix de Guerre) – Medals and Uniform Accoutrements
Group of thirteen medals awarded to Brigadier J. P. Girvan, 15th Canadian Infantry Battalion, the most decorated member of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) in the Great War. Medals: 1. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; 2. Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and […]
48th Highlanders Book of Remembrance Frontispiece
In abutments under glass tops at each end of the Memorial Communion Table in St Andrew’s Church is the 48th Highlanders’ Book of Remembrance, upon which the names and ranks of the dead of both world wars, 1,818 soldiers, are inscribed in elegant block script on 25 parchment pages. One page is turned each year […]
48th Highlanders Book of Remembrance
In the centre of the chancel is a memorial Communion Table dedicated on Remembrance Day, Sunday, 11 November 1934, by The Rev. Stuart C. Parker, D.D., Minister of St. Andrew’s and Chaplain of the Regiment. The table, a gift of the sergeants in memory of their comrades who fell in the First World War, stands […]
Box 10 – Kim Beatty Records for Dileas
Box 10 contains Dileas Documents, files and records from Kim Beatty donation
Box 7 – Lt. Col M. E. George trips post WWII
Holland and Italy post war trips – 1980 to 1995 Photos documents and travel stuff
Capt. Philip F. Seagram – Medals
Capt. Philip F Seagram medals – three medals and the memorial ribbon/medal. Canadian Defence medal Volunteer service medal 1939-45 war medal Memorial medal and ribbon in original black hinged box ( separate accession) Capt. Seagram (age 30) was the first officer of the 48th Highlanders to be killed in the Second World War – March […]
Capt. Philip F. Seagram Memorial Medal with case
Capt. Philip F. Seagram – Memorial Cross with purple ribbon in original black plastic case. Capt. Seagram (age 30) was the first officer of the 48th Highlanders to be killed in the Second World War – March 8, 1941. While on leave from the Junior Staff College during the bombing blitz of London on March […]
Capt. Philip F. Seagram – Letter from Countess Annovazzi ( daughter)
Hand written card from Captain Philp Seagram’s daughter Countess Sandra Annovazzi – Seagram of Italy giving Philip’s medals and Memorial Cross to the museum. Capt. Seagram was the first officer of the 48th Highlanders to be killed during the war. He was sheltering in a basement in London when a German bomb struck the building, […]