G. L. Cassaday – belt, personal
Black nylon belt with brass coloured buckle and 48th Highlanders crest on buckle
G. L. Cassaday – Glengarry Cap
Standard issue Glengarry cap with buckle badge issued to G. L. Cassaday. Buckle badge has red cloth insert behind the badge and is set on a black cloth square patch.
G. L. Cassaday – Balmoral Cap
Interwar Balmoral cap (made by Wm. Anderson and Sons Edinburgh and Glasgow) with name written inside of cap “Lieut G L Cassaday”. Buckle Badge contains a red cloth background patch and sits on a 2″ x 2″ official Davidson tartan.
G. L. Cassaday – baseball hat – red
Red baseball cap with the 48th Highlanders badge
Instructions for The Canadian Chaplain Services – WWII
A purple covered 5 inch (12.7 cm) by 8 inch (20.32 cm) instruction booklet for the Chaplain Services group printed in 1940. The booklet belonged to Padre, Captain Stewart East of the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada. The Royal Canadian Chaplain Service (French: Service de l’aumônerie royal canadien) is a personnel branch of the […]
Hymns for Canadian Forces with Order of Divine Services – WWII
A 5 inch (12.7 cm) by 7 inch (17.78 cm) copy of the Hymns for Canadian Forces with Order of Divine Services, published by the YMCA whose brand identification is on the front cover. Francis Thompson and George Matheson signed the front cover. There are many signatures of 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders throughout. The copy […]
Webley & Scott No.2 Mk.I Flare Pistol 1918 for WW1 Armored Vehicles
The Webley & Scott No.2 Mark I flare guns, often modified just prior to WW2. These were designed for use on light armoured vehicles and slide into a housing. Original date of 1918 on the left side of the barrel. The bore of the flare is 1.5 inch (3.81 cm) with a 2.75 inch (6.99 […]
Leuchtpistole M/1894
The use of purpose built handguns to fire light- and signaling pyrotechnics didn’t really catch on until the Russian-Japanese war in 1904-05, and it became a standard “tool of the trade” during the Great War. In the early days the use of the flare gun was limited to shooting flares to illuminate the battlefield at nighttime. […]
Barb Wire Cork Screw
The 36-inch (99.14 cm) screw pickets, used as supports for barbed wire defences, were introduced c. 1915 as a replacement for timber posts. Crown Iron Works Co. (Minneapolis, MN) made over 10 million of these screw post pickets for WW1, WW2 and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The French name for this type of “steel stake” […]
Dear Old Pal of Mine Sheet Music
An 8.5 inch (21.59 cm) by 11 inch (27.94 cm) copy of Dear Old Pal of Mine sheet music, which is a World War I song written by Harold Robe and Gitz Rice. The song was first published in 1916 by G. Ricordi & Co.in New York, NY. Irish tenor John McCormack earned the nickname the […]