Box of Documents
A cardboard box of files with a wide range of documents: Large battered file folder from WWII with official recommendations for awards; 10 Jan 1944 CVSM list; Framed code decipher message; CBG SPS 2013-14 binder; 2015 Apeldoorn liberation commemoration booklet in Dutch and English; Copy of Remembrance Volume 4; Pte Tyles attestation papers and photo […]
OCA Photos 2007-2014
Three 5×7 photos and fifteen 4×6 photos. A) 48th Drill Team at Victoria Square for Royal Newfoundland Regiment, April 27, 2014. B) Herb Pike visits Bob Nuttal in Kingston in 2014. Herb is wearing red-tinted glasses. C) Herb Pike visits Bob Nuttal in Kingston in 2014. Herb is not wearing the glasses. D) Copy of […]
June 4 2000 Church Parade
One 4×11 photo and five 4×10 photos. A) Highlanders in front of a memorial. B) Highlanders lined up in front of St. Andrew’s church. C) Highlanders on parade. D) Highlanders band drums on parade. E) Highlanders brass band on parade. F) Highlanders pipe band on parade.
Pipe Banner of HLCol C. A. Darling
Heraldry: Motto: Dei Donum Translation: (Latin) The Free Gift of God Reverse: On a wreath of vert and argent, a dexter hand holding a heart, all proper, encircled in a belt and buckle or of the second, on a field of vert. Initials C A D Obverse: 48th Highlanders, Buckle Badge, proper, on a field […]
The Falcon July 2023
“The Highlander Window” – Stained Glass in St Andrew’s Church
“The Highlanders’ Window”, a stained-glass window designed by Peter Haworth and dedicated on Sunday, 7 November 1937. Mrs. Thomas J. Clark donated the window out of her admiration for the regiment. Sergeant George Elms posed for the artist, little knowing that his son and grandson would also serve in the 48th. As described in 1950 […]
Cap Badge – Official design 2002
The buckle badge, approved in 1991, returning the badge design components to the badge used from 1891 to 1939, was documented as Official by DND in 2002. The re-approved badge contained a Scottish buckle as did the original. DND, in the mid 1930s, declared that the buckle was a garter of the Order of the […]
Tower Box 2021800008
Copy of Comrades by Don Norris; Manuscript of The Story of a Sword by MWO RA Appleton; Commemorative 48th Highlanders Pachino Day sticker; Canadian badge pamphlet; Copy of 50th-anniversary version of Holland and the Canadians; American gas mask bag; goggles; late 1990s to mid-2010s photo album, mostly parade, and Old Comrades, around 100 photos; three […]
Envelope of Pte. Harold C. McKay 8th AA photos
Envelope with two photos (and a copy of one) from Harold McKay’s time in the 8th Anti-Aircraft Battery, and two emails to Doris McKay from Harold Wright discussing the photos. The first photo (a) is 5×3, of six men standing in front of a machine gun, with two holding a shell. There is also a […]
Pipe Banner – Maj Tyler Wentzell, CD
Heraldry: Motto: No motto. Reverse: Escutcheon gules party per fess argent with three mullets azure all between two Greyhounds argent dexter and sinister. Helmet argent in profile with crest Angel Wings gules and argent proper bound by mantling gules and argent. Initials TW argent below crest. Obverse: 48th Highlanders, Buckle Badge, proper, on a field of azure […]