OCA Photos 2007-2014
Three 5×7 photos and fifteen 4×6 photos. A) 48th Drill Team at Victoria Square for Royal Newfoundland Regiment, April 27, 2014. B) Herb Pike visits Bob Nuttal in Kingston in 2014. Herb is wearing red-tinted glasses. C) Herb Pike visits Bob Nuttal in Kingston in 2014. Herb is not wearing the glasses. D) Copy of […]
June 4 2000 Church Parade
One 4×11 photo and five 4×10 photos. A) Highlanders in front of a memorial. B) Highlanders lined up in front of St. Andrew’s church. C) Highlanders on parade. D) Highlanders band drums on parade. E) Highlanders brass band on parade. F) Highlanders pipe band on parade.
Wooden Plaque
A plaque reading “1st Canadian Highland Battalion Deutschland” with central section of 48th Highlanders cap badge painted on it. Mounted on 8×12 wooden board with white metal 48th Highlanders Cap Badge, diamond pattern at the bottom centre.
Stan at Work
Yellowed Polaroid photo of Stan Milne in the research room at the 48th Museum, labelled “Stan at Work”, circa the 1990s.
Pipe Banner of HLCol C. A. Darling
Heraldry: Motto: Dei Donum Translation: (Latin) The Free Gift of God Reverse: On a wreath of vert and argent, a dexter hand holding a heart, all proper, encircled in a belt and buckle or of the second, on a field of vert. Initials C A D Obverse: 48th Highlanders, Buckle Badge, proper, on a field […]
The Falcon July 2023
“The Highlander Window” – Stained Glass in St Andrew’s Church
“The Highlanders’ Window”, a stained-glass window designed by Peter Haworth and dedicated on Sunday, 7 November 1937. Mrs. Thomas J. Clark donated the window out of her admiration for the regiment. Sergeant George Elms posed for the artist, little knowing that his son and grandson would also serve in the 48th. As described in 1950 […]
Cap Badge – Official design 2002
The buckle badge, approved in 1991, returning the badge design components to the badge used from 1891 to 1939, was documented as Official by DND in 2002. The re-approved badge contained a Scottish buckle as did the original. In the mid 1930s, the Department of National Defence declared that the buckle was a garter of […]
War Diaries 1st Battalion Sept 1939 to May 1943
The War Diaries of the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada from their recruitment date in Sept 1939 to May 1943, up to their departure from Scotland in June 1943 to the Landings at Pachino, Sicily. The period in England includes training at Aldershot, a brief Foray to France in 1940, and further training and […]
War Diaries 1st Battalion July 1943 to August 1945
The War Diaries of the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada from July 1943 to August 1945 are in hard copy in Box 33B. The attached pdf has the War Diaries from 10 July 1943, the day after the landings at Pachino, Sicily, to 28 January 1945 when the battalion was between the Lamone and […]