LCol Michael Ernest (Mike) George, CD (MID)
Commanding Officer, 48th Highlanders of Canada 1949-1952 Honorary Lieutenant Colonel 1967-1970 Lt. M. E. George 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. After sailing to England […]
Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Charles (Doug) Haldenby, CD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1961 – 1964 Honorary Colonel 1984 – 1988 and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel 1982 – 1984 Douglas Charles Haldenby was born 3 Mar 1925 in Toronto. His father was BGen Eric Wilson Haldenby (1893-1971) who was also a Commanding Officer of the Regiment. In 1948, he married Muriel Ross MacDonald […]
Lieutenant Colonel Keith Campaigne Bowerman (Casey) Corbett, CD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1958 – 1961 Keith Campaigne Bowerman “Casey” Corbett was born May 20,1920 in Toronto, Ontario, to parents William Frederick Corbett and Sadie May “Sada” Bowerman. He had three siblings: Frederick James Bowerman Corbett (b. 1910), Vaughan B. Corbett (b. 1911), and Dawson Francis Bowerman Corbett (b. 1913). The family […]
Lieutenant Colonel Hamish Kerr MacIntosh, MBE, EM
The Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1955 – 1958 Major Hamish K. Macintosh, M.B.E., E.D., was a son of Mr & Mrs John F Hendry. He attended Ridley College in St Catherines 1936 – 1939. He was an avid athlete and played hockey , football and cricket and was a school ‘“Prefect” in 1938 […]
RSM (WO1) Thomas Cotton MM
Regimental Sergeant Major 48th Highlanders of Canada 1943-1948 Thomas Cotton joined the 48th Highlanders and was serving as a Sergeant in the Regiment in 1916 when he joined the 134th Battalion 48th Highlanders Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). He later was transferred to the 4th Battalion CEF and served with them. until the end of the […]
LCol Hamilton Cassels, Jr. MBE
Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada 1945 Hamilton (Laddie) Cassels, Jr. was born on August 1st, 1895, in Toronto, Ontario, to Hamilton Cassels (b.Quebec, 1854-d.Toronto, 1925), Barrister and Mary Yarwood Baldwin. Cassels earned a degree from the University of Toronto in 1913. He was admitted to Osgoode Hall Law School in 1917 and […]
LCol Joseph Emm Frowde Seagram ED
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada 1943-1945 Married Marjorie Houston of Chatham on June 1, 1929. LCol J. E. F. Seagram joined the 48th Highlanders militia battalion in Toronto prior to 1939. He was promoted from Lt. to Captain as Transport Officer in the spring of 1939. When war was declared in early […]
LCol Ian Macintosh Roe 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, Ian MacIntosh Roe Sinclair was a student at the University of Toronto and member of the Queen’s Own Rifles. After the […]
LCol George MacKenzie Alexander, MC, (MID), VD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1936-1939 Officer Commanding No 2 Company – 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) Prisoner of War He was born May 1, 1886 and was educated at Upper Canada College. He was enrolled in the 15th Bn as a Captain on 20 September 1914 in Valcartier. He stated his […]
Pte John Everette Stanley Wilson – 1st Battalion
B144418 in photo wearing balmoral and shirt with rolled up sleeves. KIA Dec 21, 1944. Buried at Revenna War Cemetery, V.G.12, Italy.