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 […]
Brigadier Ian S JOHNSTON, CBE, DSO*, ED, CD (MID)
Commanding Officer 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada (Canadian Active Service Force) December 1942 – June 1944 Honourary LCol (48th Highlanders of Canada) 1964 – 1967 and HCol 1967 – 1972. Ian Strachan Johnston CBE DSO (2) ED KC was born on 12 August 1908 in Toronto, Ontario. He was educated at Ridley College […]
Captain WILSON, JOHN ALEXANDER
Captain Wilson was killed in action in the second day of the Hitler Line battle, (recorded as 23 May 1944) near Pontecorvo, Italy. NOK: Son of Richard Steele Wilson and Mabel Milne Wilson; husband of Elizabeth Stewart Wilson, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Captain WHITELAW, GEORGE TURNBULL
NOK: Son of Allan Napier Whitelaw and Marion Whitelaw, of Oshawa, Ontario.
Lieutenant Robert Free Osler
Lt. Robert Free (Bobs) Osler joined the 2nd Battalion 48th Highlanders in 1940 to train for overseas duty. Once in England he joined the 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders and was appointed to Charlie Company. on 26 April 1943, in response to the army adding a Company to the battalion, Osler became platoon commander of 18 […]
Lieut. Proctor, G J
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Lieut. Aird, W H
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LIEUT. MACPHERSON, A.F.
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Captain T Mackie
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Lieutenant Colonel D. A. (Don) Mackenzie, DSO (Distinguished Service Cross – USA)
Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada, 1944 – 1945. Killed in action at Wilp, The Netherlands, 12 April, 1945 Donald Mackenzie joined the the 48th Highlanders in 1937. At the outbreak of the Second World War he proceeded overseas as Battalion Transport Officer (TO) with the 1st Battalion in December 1939. He was […]