Captain WR Catto
Lieutenant S Macfarlane
Lieutenant EB Johnston
Captain DFB Corbett
Major BB King
LCol J I (Ian) Douglas, CM,KStJ,CD
Lt. Ian Douglas joined the 2nd Battalion, 48th Highlanders in Toronto and is shown in a 1940 newspaper article as one of the 52 officers of the 2nd Battalion who were training for service in the Second World War. Once in England he quickly joined the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders in January 1943 in the […]
Major Blair Smart Eby, MC
Lt. Blair Eby joined the 2nd Battalion, 48th Highlanders in Toronto and is shown in a 1940 newspaper article as one of the 52 officers of the 2nd Battalion who were training for service in the Second World War. Travelling to England to the Holding Unit he was promptly sent to the 1st Battalion, 48th […]
Lt Ian MacDonald
Lieutenant Colonel James R O (Jim) Counsell DSO (Bronze Lion of the Netherlands)
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada 13 April to 1 October 1945 James Ronald O’Dell (“Jim”) Counsell was born in Grantham, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada on 9 Jul 1904 to William Norman Counsell and Rose Mabel Odell. He became the last Commanding Officer of the wartime 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders. He went overseas as […]
Rev H/Major Stewart Bland East, MBE, MC
Honorary Captain the Reverend Stewart East “Padre East” landed with the Highlanders at Pachino on 10 July 1943 and served with them throughout Sicily and Italy leaving in January 1945 as the unit was preparing to redeploy to Northwest Europe. He and his stretcher bearers bandaged ministered and buried the dead, How they felt about […]