Box of photos 1919- 1938 and WWII

Box of miscellaneous photos covering the First World War, Interwar period, and into the Second World War. These photos range from photographs, postcards, to large studio portraits.

Dirk of Pipe Major James Robb Fraser

Pipe-majors were 1st Class staff NCOs and their status allowed them to carry a dirk with knife and fork, although with silver fittings, not gilt like the officers.

Captain R. W. S. Johnstone, MC

Lt. R.W.S.  (Rex) Johnstone (Johnston) 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. In England Johnstone was in the battalion’s Holding Unit, then the Seaforth Highlanders of […]

Lt. W. E. (Paul) Pentland

Lt. Paul Pentland 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 joined the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders. When the battalion sailed for Sicily […]