Captain WR Catto
Lieutenant H Cassels
Lieutenant S Macfarlane
Lieutenant EB Johnston
Captain DFB Corbett
Major BB King
Major J I (Ian) Douglas
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 JRO (Jim) Counsell DSO (Bronze Lion of the Netherlands)
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada 13 April to 1 October 1945 Lieutenant Colonel JRO “Jim” Counsell, DSO was the last Commanding Officer of the wartime 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders. Having been Adjutant in England, before leaving for Sicily he joined the newly formed D Company and served with them as Company […]