1st Bn Departure – bidding baby goodbye- Dec 16, 1939

A member of the 1st Bn, 48th Highlanders, bidding his baby goodbye with his spouse watching as they prepared to leave the Horse Palace on 1 Dec 16, 1939. The …
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A member of the 1st Bn, 48th Highlanders, bidding his baby goodbye with his spouse watching as they prepared to leave the Horse Palace on 1 Dec 16, 1939. The …
A 48th Highlander hugging his wife as the 1st Battalion prepared to depart from Toronto to England. The 1st Bn, 48th Highlanders departed from the Horse Palace on the Canadian …
1st Bn, 48th Highlanders departure. A 48th Highlander carrying his crying daughter as they were heading to a CN train to depart for Halifax to embark for England as part …
Members of the 1st Bn, 48th Highlanders in the canteen in the barracks at the Horse Palace on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds. The battalion trained during Sept to December …
Cpl Johnson and Cpl Palmer working in 2nd Bn, Quartermaster, 48th Highlanders Stores Tent at Niagara-on-the-Lake, June, July 1942. P1371
…2nd Bn, loading kit and settling into bell tents at Niagara Rifle Range, June , July 1942. P1372 The 2nd Battalion, 48th Highlanders were the home battalion in Toronto, assisting …
2 Bn, 48th Highlanders CQMS and asst. QM staff at Niagara-on-the-Lake Rifle Range, June, July 1942 P1373
…2nd Bn, 48th Highlanders Exhibition Guard training at Thorncliffe, Toronto, July 1942 P1374
…Posed picture on the Ice, 2 Bn hockey team with piper in Toronto 1940. The 2nd Battalion, 48th Highlanders, were in Toronto, training new recruits for overseas duty and managing …
Posed team photo of Football (soccer) team WWII. P1376
…CQMS & asst. QM staff, Shorncliffe, Toronto July 1942
…Baby goat sitting on Highlander’s shoulder in Italy, 1944. P1399
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