Frontispiece of Book of Remembrance

48th Highlanders Book of Remembrance Frontispiece

In abutments under glass tops at each end of the Memorial Communion Table in St Andrew’s Church is the 48th Highlanders’  Book of Remembrance, upon which the names and ranks of the dead of both world wars, 1,818 soldiers, are inscribed in elegant block script on 25 parchment pages. One page is turned each year in the Remembrance Day ceremony. This book, first completed after WWI and then expanded after WWII to record Highlanders killed in that war, will be replaced with an expanded list of Highlanders, largely added names from the First World War. The added names were identified by the members of the 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project through over seven years of research. The original book, and its Frontispiece, will be on permanent display in the 48th Highlanders Museum.

The memorial Communion Table, located in the center of the chancel of St Andrew’s Church, was dedicated on Remembrance Day, Sunday, 11 November 1934, by The Rev. Stuart C. Parker, D.D., Minister of St. Andrew’s and Chaplain of the Regiment. The table, a gift of the sergeants in memory of their comrades who fell in the First World War, stands as a memorial to those of both world wars and has been used since its dedication at every celebration of the Sacrament of Holy Communion. The table, wrought in oak, was designed by Dr. John A. Pearson, a member of the church, a sergeant in the 48th and architect of the present Parliament Buildings and the Peace Tower in Ottawa.

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Era
1920 – 1938 Interwar period
Location of artifact
Case 58 Remembrance
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Art

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