Sgt Iain Kinkaid
Sgt Iain Kinkaid CD (Ret) joined the 48th Highlanders of Canada as a Pte in 1992, completing basic training and infantry trade training that same summer. He was promoted to Corporal in 1995 after completing the Basic Machine Gun course, and deployed on OP Palladium Roto 13 to Bosnia with C Coy RCD BG SFOR […]
Sgt Wysynski, Alexander Joseph – 1st Bn
B101617 Sgt Wysynski, Alexander Joseph was taken on strength X-4 List (48th Highlanders available for reinforcement) from the X-3 List (hospital) on 28 August 1944. His family states he was on a ship that had been torpedoed. He joined the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders on 11 September as part of 90 soldiers from the Corps […]
Captain Cameron James Killoran
Lt. Cameron James L. Killoran graduated from the Canadian Officers Training Corp at Osgoode Hall at the University of Toronto. (Service records required for service after COTC). A medallion, treasured by his family, displays Princess Elizabeth and the words HRH Princess Elizabeth on the reverse and on the obverse the wording George VI and Queen […]
Pte Chapman, Arthur James – 1st Bn and FSSF
B77526 Chapman, Arthur James enlisted with the 48th Highlanders in Toronto on 26 October 1942, with concurrent transfer to the First Special Service Force. The FSSF, known later as the “Devil’s Brigade” had been formed on 20 July 1942. He trained and served with the FSSF, a Brigade of 1800 soldiers in 3 Battalions for […]
Drummer McKenzie, Alexander Christie
Drummer McKenzie, Alexander Christie, nickname “Sandy”, was born in 1907 in county Antrim, Ireland. From photos he appears to have been a member of the 48th Highlanders Pipes and Drums between WWI and WWII. He was married to Gladys Irene (nee Handy) McKenzie. He died in Toronto in 1960.
Simpson, Henry Wright – 92nd Bn
192335 Pte Simpson, Henry Wright enlisted with the 92nd Battalion, 48th Highlanders in Toronto on 13 August 1915. He gave his date of birth as 27 August 1890. He stated he had served 3 years with the 6th Bn Royal Highlanders in Scotland. With the 92nd Battalion he embarked from Halifax on 20 May 1916 […]
Captain F. (Fred) L. Skinner – Medical Officer (RCAMC)
Captain Fred Skinner, from the 5th Field Ambulance, was seconded to the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders on 4 January 1943, replacing Capt. M. M. Brown. On 13 June, with the battalion training in Gourock Scotland doing landings from LCIs (Landing craft Infantry) before embarking for Sicily, our regimental history Dileas states: “Those who tried to […]
Pte Levesque, Rheal
B134864 Pte Levesque, Rheal enlisted at MD No. 3 (northeast Ontario). He was taken on strength in Italy by the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders on 24 December 1943. Later that night the infantry companies of the battalion penetrated over two miles behind the German lines in the rain, along a goat path, undetected, to occupy […]
Mink, Pte Allan William
A108174 Pte Mink, Allan William enlisted at No 1 District Depot, London (Active Force MD1). The War Diary’s Part II order of June 1944 shows him SOS to 1 General Hospital, on 23 May. The 1st Battalion had just left from the beachhead that they had created inside the Adolph Hitler Line defences at Pontecorvo […]
L/Cpl Sargeson, Charles Thomas – 1st Bn
Charles Thomas Sargeson enlisted on 13 July 1942 at the age of 23 at MD 2 (Active Force) with the 2nd/10th Dragoons and was given the service number B41981. Activities from that date, sailing to the UK, or being assigned to the 48th Highlanders as a reinforcement require service records. On 23 August 1943 he was […]