Photograph of 48th Highlanders Officers Mess, University Avenue Armouries, 1960s. Oil portraits of former Commanding Officers are on the bracketed by Pipe Banners. The large oil painting in the centre is the Battle of Dargai, Afghanistan showing the Gordon Highlanders conquering the heights. The Gordon Highlanders of Scotland and the 48th Highlanders of Canada were the 1st Official alliance in May 1904 between regiments in the UK and the (then named) British Empire. The painting of Dargai hung originally in the lobby of the head office of a bank in downtown Toronto. P1141