Pte Glendenning A, MM
Sgt Church JR (Jack), MM
Sgt Caldwell S, MM
Capt JE (Jack) Pickering MC
Lt Jack Pickering joined “A” Coy 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders CASF in Sicily as a reinforcement officer during the last week of July 1944. Without a 48th background, he sensed he was severely handicapped, with the challenge to prove himself that much sharper. He noted his platoon’s speculative regard; after a while one man elected […]
LCpl Haig DH, MM
Capt William Peter (Bill) Richardson
OC Headquarters Company 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada (CASF) Captain WP (Bill) Richardson enlisted in Toronto for the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada (CASF).The first entry in our records show him as a Lieutenant being assigned Orderly Officer on 5 May 1942. At that time the battalion was at Littlehampton in England training […]
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) […]
Lt Sandford Galt Smith
Lieutenant Sanford Galt Smith came to 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada on 8-Dec-44. While attending University of Toronto Cadet Smith was a member of the Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC) and qualified as an Artillery officer. Also, while working as a miner in South Africa he served in the 8th Transvaal Regiment. Having qualified […]
Cpl Kay WF (Bill), DCM
Our regimental history, Dileas, states: “Two of Lt. Handley’s sections and all of Lt. Naylor’s were into the ground, unable to move. A young English lad, Cpl. William Frederick Kay, and the third section of No. 17 Platoon, rose to the occasion. Cpl. Kay was on Lt. Handley’s far right flank; his section was the […]
Cpl Crane RB, MM
