A 10.5 inch (26.67 cm) by 13.25 inch (33.66 cm) article on pages 11, 12 and 13 from the July 1942 issue of New World Illustrated. Various 48th Highlander activities from 1942.

below taken from the “New World Illustrated” magazine in July 1942.

FORTY – EIGHTH

Canada prepares for home defence

And on Friday night when the pipers are playing the regimental march “Hieland Laddie” the older men march with the ghosts of the men who did not return. As the hipes skirl and the kilts sway they are back in the mud of the Somme and Vimy Ridge remembering the expression on man’s face: maybe looking at his watch at the zero hour. Or at the face of a man buckling his belt a little tighter and lying down without a word, setting his lips, putting in a new clip of bullets, and getting ready to hold a bridge while his comrades fall back.

Those who came back are friends as only men can be who have faced peril together, and they are instilling into the younger generation the traditions of the men who fought and won in 1914-1918. The tradition of courage is a lasting one, but to-day the technique of warfare is different. So the men are drilled in the schemes of modern warfare. They learn a revised footdrill, how to attack tanks successfully, how to operate Bren machine guns, how to fight gas warfare, how to keep themselves fit for action under all conditions, and first aid and military law.

There is no shortage of men or officers. The established strength of the 48th Highlanders is 802 but to-day they are up to 856 and are not taking any more on strength. The officers of the 48th are drawn from Canada’s best-known families, the Oslers, Seagrams, Cassels, etc., and have always proved themselves first rate officer material. To-day officers and men stand ready to uphold the Gaelic motto of the 48th, DILEAS GU BRATH, “faithful for ever”