A 9 inch (22.86 cm) by 82 inch (208 cm) black and white photo of the 92nd Overseas Battalion, CEF 1916. The photo is taken on the front steps of Toronto City Hall. The Mayor of Toronto is seated beside the Commanding Officer behind the drums. Captain George T. Chisholm, a 48th Officer since 1898, was promoted LCol and to command, with training beginning in August 1915.

The 48th Highlanders raised three full battalions of Highlanders for the war – the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) in 1914, the 92nd Bn in 1915 and the 134th Battalion in 1916.  The 92nd Battalion of four companies (plus a fifth for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) departed Toronto on 17 May 1916. The number “92” was a Gordon Highlander numeral, requested specially by the 48th Highlanders to recognized their formal alliance with the Gordon Highlanders in Scotland, the first formal alliance between a “colonial” regiment and a regiment in the UK.

The majority of the 92nd Battalion reinforced the 15th Battalion, with others reinforcing the 13th and 42nd Battalions as well as other units and services. They became the 5th Reserve Battalion on 4 January 1917. Nine officers and 217 ORs were killed in action.  The 92nd Battalion Reinforcing Draft left for overseas in November 1915, ahead of the rest of 92nd suffered two officers and 44 ORs killed inaction.