48th Highlanders B Company England October 1941
A 7 inch (17.78 cm) by 28 inch (71.12 cm) sepia toned photo of the 48th Highlanders B Company, England October 1941. (Prior accession number P0059) Captain Donald MacKenzie, Officer Commanding B Coy, is in front row centre. In second row, 12th from the right end of photo is Pte Seymour, John K. (Nickname Mickey) […]
3 Letters sent home by LCpl W. S. Pogue – kia 20 December 1943
Letters sent home by LCpl Pogue to his family members. LCpl Pogue was killed in action on 20 December 1943. Top letter – A: – Air mail to Mr. John Pogue, 293 Arlington Ave., Toronto. Dated October 14, 1943; 2 pages. Pogue was temporarily in a holding unit awaiting rejoining the battalion. He writes about […]
Newspaper article re LCpl W. S. Pogue – kia 20 Dec 43
Newspaper clipping headed “Lance-Cpl W. Pogue is Killed in Italy.
Captain F. (Fred) L. Skinner – Medical Officer (RCAMC)
Captain Fred Skinner, from the 5th Field Ambulance, was seconded to the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders on 4 January 1943, replacing Capt. M. M. Brown. On 13 June, with the battalion training in Gourock Scotland doing landings from LCIs (Landing craft Infantry) before embarking for Sicily, our regimental history Dileas states: “Those who tried to […]
Pte Levesque, Rheal
B134864 Pte Levesque, Rheal enlisted at MD No. 3 (northeast Ontario). He was taken on strength in Italy by the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders on 24 December 1943. Later that night the infantry companies of the battalion penetrated over two miles behind the German lines in the rain, along a goat path, undetected, to occupy […]
Mink, Pte Allan William
A108174 Pte Mink, Allan William enlisted at No 1 District Depot, London (Active Force MD1). The War Diary’s Part II order of June 1944 shows him SOS to 1 General Hospital, on 23 May. The 1st Battalion had just left from the beachhead that they had created inside the Adolph Hitler Line defences at Pontecorvo […]
L/Cpl Sargeson, Charles Thomas – 1st Bn
Charles Thomas Sargeson enlisted on 13 July 1942 at the age of 23 at MD 2 (Active Force) with the 2nd/10th Dragoons and was given the service number B41981. Activities from that date, sailing to the UK, or being assigned to the 48th Highlanders as a reinforcement require service records. On 23 August 1943 he was […]
Cpl Thompson, Douglas A.
Douglas A. Thompson enlisted at Military District 4 (Active Force) in Quebec (date not recorded) and was given the service number D138615. He did not give his correct date of birth (07 March 1925) as he was underage, 17 years old. After sailing to the UK where he was placed on the 48th Highlanders X-4 […]
Pte Vollick, Charles Norman
Charles Norman Vollick enlisted on 3 July 1944 in Esquimalt BC and given the service number B155788. He was born 21 September 1919 and gave his religion as Church of England. His next of kin in a later document was: wife – Mrs. Dorothy Vollick, 635 2nd Avenue, Niagara Falls, Ontario. Part II Orders to […]
Piper McFarlane, John Bertram Stuart
A34924 McFarlane, John Bertram Stuart enrolled in No. 1 District Depot, London, Ontario (Active Force MD1) on 08 October 1940 from his hometown Guelph, Ontario. He served in England, Sicily, Italy, France with the Royal Canadian Engineers, then in Germany and the Netherlands with the 48th Highlanders. He gave his date of birth as 29 […]