LCol C. E. Bent DSO on Horseback in Paradise NS in the 1920s.
A 3.5 inch by 5 inch sepia tone photograph of LCol Bent on Fritz the horse with Bruno the dog, the 15th Battalion mascot. The horse Fritz was a German horse taken from a German officer captured during a battle. LCol Bent brought Fritz and Bruno back to Canada and his home when he led […]
LCol C. E. Bent, DSO in Dress Scarlets at his home in Paradise NS, 1920’s
A 3.5 inch by 5 inch sepia of LCol Bent in his Scarlet uniform. Most likely posing in his backyard for a photograph. The Full Dress Scarlet was the first uniform of the 48th Highlanders, adopted in 1892, the year after the regiment’s founding. The current active regiment continues to wear full dress on ceremonial […]
LCol Bent, DSO with 15th Battalion Officers after The Somme, 26 Sept. 1916
A black and white photograph of the 15th Battalion officers taken after the battle of The Somme, 26th September 1916 . With their uniforms still covered with the mud of the Somme battlefield, officers of the 15th Battalion pose with Colonel Bent, who succeeded LCol Marshall as Commanding Officer. Standing are Captains A.C. Futcher and […]
LCol C. E. Bent, DSO with 15th Battalion officers 10th October 1916
A black and white 5 inch by 3.5 inch photograph of the officers of the 15th Battalion taken 10th October 1916. The 15th Battalion had completed its time at The Somme including the battle that began 26 September in which the battalion lost 117 killed in action and 223 wounded. The total casualty list for […]
Telephone Set DMKV 1940
The Telephone D Mark V is a Second World War era portable telephone designed for field use in Army formation forward of Divisional Headquarters. In addition to the ability to talk, it provides a call buzzer, a bell indication of an incoming magneto generator call, aural indication of an incoming buzzer call and the ability […]
Medic Canvas Bag – 1st Bn. 48th Highlanders
First aid, medic bag used by 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders. In the 48th members of the Pipe Band were assigned to companies as medics and stretcher bearers. A combat medic will typically carry a backpack styled bag known as a “Unit One Pack”. Aid bags are available from many different manufacturers, in many different styles. […]
LCol C E Bent DSO – Head and Shoulder image – 1916
Lieutenant Colonel C E Bent DSO. Commanded the 48th Highlanders of Canada from 1916. Returned from the war with a captured warhorse and the 15th Battalion’s mascot dog Bruno. Col. Bent died in 1955. LCol Bent transferred from the 17th Bn (Nova Scotia) in 1915 and became Commanding Officer of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) […]
Staff car flag of Field Marshal Sir B. L. Montgomery on V-E day
Small Royal Union Flag (Union Jack), circa 1944, reported by Lt. Col. Trumbull Warren as being flown from Field Marshal Sir B.L. Montgomery’s staff car on V-E Day. The flag was given to Warren by Field Marshall Montgomery, along with a carbon copy of the Surrender Document signed at Luneburg Heath on 4 May 1945 […]
Regimental Orders 1891 – 1906
small brown notebook Mar 1894 – 1896 small brown notebook Nov 1896 – 1899 small brown notebook E Coy June 1896 – Dec 1900 small brown notebook A Coy Sept 1893 – Jan 1894 small brown notebook C coy Feb 1892 – July 1894 small brown notebook 1886 – 1898 black hardcover book 48th Highlanders […]
Orderly Room Records 1920 – 1936
File folders of orderly room records for 48th Battalion for years 1920 to 1936 paper records