LCol IMR Sinclair, DSO OBE MC VD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1930-1932 Commanding Officer 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Commanding Officer 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Jamaica 1941-42) Born in Toronto on 16 June 1891, Sinclair was a student at the University of Toronto and member of the Queen’s Own Rifles. After the outbreak of the […]
LCol George M Alexander. MC VD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1936-1939 Officer Commanding No 3 Company – 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) Prisoner of War – St Julien 23 April 1915
LCol W. Charles Warren Darling, VD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada (Home Battalion) 1915-1919 Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1919-1923 William Charles Warren Darling joined the 48th Highlanders as a private on 31 March 1897. He was the first of four generations of the Darling family to wear the Davidson tartan.
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) […]
Mess Dress – Regimental Sergeant Major – 1923 – 1954
a) Scarlet Mess Kit Jacket with navy blue lapels and cuffs, open neck, 3 brass 48th buttons at bottom, gold braided cords on shoulders signifying Regimental Sergeant Major. Only Officers and the RSM were entitled to gold cords. White piping on edges of collar and cuffs. 2 brass buttons on each sleeve above cuff. Badge […]
Full Dress Review Order Uniform – Piper – 1932
Full Dress Review Order uniform of a piper in the 48th Highlanders Pipes and Drums – 1932 pattern: a) Dark green doublet with gold falcon badges on collar; 3 brass buttons on cuffs, 8 down the front, 3 buttons on each Inverness flap both front and back, 2 buttons along the waist in the rear; […]
Pte Hughes, Calvin – 134th Battalion
800114 Pte Calvin Hughes attested to the 134th Battalion in 1915, trained at Camp Niagara-on-the-Lake earning his Certificate of Military Instruction which qualified him for the rank of Corporal. He sailed to England with the 134th Battalion in 1916 and was later assigned to the 4th Battalion in France. He received a gunshot wound to […]
WO1 James E (Tiny) Small
Regimental Sergeant Major 4th Princess Louise’s Dragoon Guards (1941-1945) Platoon and Company Sergeant Major, 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders (CASF) (1940-1942) Drum Major 48th Highlanders of Canada (1932-1937) James E Small tried three times to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during World War I. In 1916 he was released from the 182nd Battalion. His medical described […]
The Scottish Clans & Their Tartans
The Scottish Clans & Their Tartans. This small book provides details and reference to the history of the Scottish clans.
North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment by Bird
North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment by Will R. Bird. This book provides the regimental history of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment who served in both World Wars.