Box 2021810010

storage box containing: Frank Collis – photos, letters 1 bag Pte. E. A. Tweddle empty medals bows ( medals mounted on display 2009004001 to 006) Herbert McClelland – copy of attestation paper and Valcartier shooting medal 1 box Philip Seagram with empty envelopes Don Caswell B734400 one envelope copy of service record Sgt. James Harker […]

48th Highlanders Parade Postcard – Adelaide Street W – c1910

Front of postcard is a colourized photograph of the 48th Highlanders on parade in downtown Toronto heading westwards, photograph taken in front of and near 110 Adelaide Street W. (between York St. and Bay St.), soldiers in full dress uniform with red tunics, kilts, and tall black bonnet feather hats, near the top right printed […]

48th Highlanders Parade Postcard – c1910s

Colourized postcard of 48th Highlanders marching down a street in downtown Toronto, two rail tracks are visible embedded in the street, likely for streetcars, soldiers in full dress uniform with red tunics, kilts, and tall black bonnet feather hats, near the bottom left printed in black is: “48th Highlanders, Toronto, Canada”, and near the bottom […]

War Diary, 1st Bn – May 1944

May 1944: The battalion on May 8 began the move across Italy to Mignano area then fought up the  Liri Valley  before single-handedly breaking the Hitler Line at Pontecorvo, the first Canadians to do so . The following attachments to the war diary are included in the PDF file: Part II Order No. 42 – […]