48th Highlanders Book of Remembrance
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48th Highlanders Book of Remembrance

In the centre of the chancel is a memorial Communion Table 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. In abutments under glass tops at each end is the 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.

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Era
1920 – 1938 Interwar period
Location of artifact
Case 58 Remembrance
Classification
Unit Records, Orders and Records

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