48th Highlanders Bn presenting arms in front City Hall in New York during a recruitment drive in 1917.The 48th Highlanders Pipes and Drums and selected troops participated in the Canadian Army’s recruiting drive in New York and Chicago in 1917. At that time the USA had not entered WWI and recruits were being sought to join the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Canada had joined the war at it’s outset in 1914.

(Prior accession No. P0412)