LCol JEF Seagram ED
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada 1943-1945 LCol J. E. F. Seagram joined the 48th Highlanders militia battalion in Toronto prior to 1939. He was promoted from Lt. to Captain as Transport Officer in the spring of 1939. When war was declared in early September Captain Seagram was one of the majority of […]
LCol IMR Sinclair, DSO OBE MC VD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1930-1932 Commanding Officer 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Commanding Officer 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Jamaica 1941-42) Born in Toronto on 16 June 1891, Sinclair was a student at the University of Toronto and member of the Queen’s Own Rifles. After the outbreak of the […]
LCol George M Alexander. MC VD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1936-1939 Officer Commanding No 3 Company – 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) Prisoner of War – St Julien 23 April 1915
Sgt Maj (WO2) Colin Fraser Barron VC
Colin Fraser Barron was born on 20 September 1893 in Baldavie Cottage in Boyndie, Banffshire, Scotland. He emigrated to Canada in March 1910, becoming a railway worker in Toronto. He enlisted in the 48th Highlanders, a militia unit in May 1913 and was posted to H Company. He volunteered for the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) […]
Colonel Donald M Robertson, MVO VD
Commanding Officer 1906-1911 Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel 1911-1938 Donald Murdoch Robertson, a native of Glengarry Ontario was one of the band of Scots who witnessed the birth of the movement which resulted in the formation of the 48th Highlanders. When officers were selected he was appointed senior captain, provisionally, on February i9th, 1892, with confirmation on February […]
Pipe Major James Robb Fraser
Pipe Major 48th Highlanders of Canada 1913-1952 In 1913, after 21 years service with the Gordon Highlanders in Scotland Fraser replied to a notice from Lt. Col. William Hendrie asking for a “competent” piper to be the Pipe Major of the 48th Highlanders. Fraser sailed for Canada and enlisted on 30 May 1913. Roles in […]
Captain George W Elms
1910-1953 1910 – Private 1915 – Corporal and Sergeant 1917 – Staff Sergeant Instructor 1933 – Acting Sergeant Major Instructor 1937 – Company Sergeant Major Instructor 1940 – Company Sergeant Major (2nd Battalion) 1940/41 CSM University of Toronto COTC 1941/42 RSM University of Toronto and Toronto Rotary Highlanders (Cadet Instructor Cadre) 1944-53 Captain, Commanding Officer […]
Sgt-Mjr Alfred G Robertson
First Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) 48th Battalion “Highlanders” 1891-1896 Colour-Sergeant Robertson came to the Regiment as the first RSM having served with the 2nd Battalion Queen’s Own Rifles. He served with E Company of that Regiment during the Northwest Rebellion 1885.
Bugler DUDLEY, M
15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) Killed in Action 29 September 1915 Bugler Morgan Dudley attested into the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) at Valcartier camp in Quebec on September 22, 1914. His attestation papers state that he was born in Birmingham, England and that he had served three years in the Canadian Militia with the 48th Highlanders. […]
Lieut Richard Scougall Cassels Webber MC
Lieutenant RSC Webber and eight other junior officers arrived at the “White Chateau” with a draft of 204 soldiers from 134th Battalion (48th Highlanders) soldiers from England in November 1916. He was wounded at VIMY RIDGE in May 1917.