Pte. Ewart Thomas Gray
Born in the village of Todmorden, Ontario, Canada, today a historic park within the city known as the Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, on February 5th, 1897, Pte. Ewart Thomas Gray worked as a fire fighter and served for 1 year with the 48th Highlanders from July 3rd, 1916 until May 22nd, 1917. During WW1 for […]
Pte Langridge, John Edgar
B135232 John Edgar Langridge was recruited through the depot run by the home battalion of the 48th Highlanders and wore the 48th uniform until he was assigned to a unit. He went overseas on 9 April 43. In the UK he was assigned to 5 CIRU (Canadian Infantry Reserve Unit) awaiting assignment to a battalion. […]
Pipe Major BEATON, Farquhar
Pipe Major 48th Highlanders 1898-1913 Born in Edinburgh Farquhar Beaton served as Pipe Major of the 48th Highlanders of Toronto from 1898-1913. He was known for his tunes ‘The Midlothian Amateur Pipe Band’ and ‘Colonel D.M. Robertson’. Pipe-Major Beaton led the band until 1913 and experimented with part-playing on Highland bagpipes. He has introduced a […]
RSM (WO1) Lewis E De Harte (MiD)
Regimental Sergeant Major Lewis E DeHarte, (MiD) 48th Highlanders (1910-1914) (1921-1927) Company Sergeant Major No 1 C0y 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) (1914-1915) Prisoner of War (1915-1919) Taken prisoner during the Battle at Gravenstaffel Ridge April 1915
Maj-Gen G. Brock (Nemo) Chisholm, CC, CBE, MC*, ED
Major General George Brock Chisholm, CC, CBE, MC*, ED (Captain) – 15th Battalion, 48th Highlanders) (Extracts from the Canadian Encyclopedia Entry “Brock Chisholm”) Brock Chisholm joined the 15th Battalion on 17 July 1915 and served in the trenches in France rising through the ranks. By 01 January 1917, when he was made a Lt, he […]
Pte Street, Kenneth Leslie
Attested on 7 July 1917 with the Service Bn CDF, 48th Highlanders CEF for overseas duty. Date of Birth is 4 July 1871 which made him 46 when he attested. Sent to NCO’s Training Depot in Militia District 2 at Niagara on the Lake for training where he was diagnosed with a hernia that required […]
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. […]
Pte TURNER, William Benjamin
NOK: Sarah Walker (M) 534 Front St. W., Toronto, ON
Sgt DRADER, HCP
Lieutenant William Richard Bell DCM
William Bell joined on 19 Sept. 1914 at the age of 18 as a Private in the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders). During the 2nd Battle of Ypres in April 1915, the first gas attack of the war, Private Bell was wounded in the chest by a shrapnel but returned to active duty two months later. […]