Piper Allan Mcleod Cameron – 1st Bn
B137902 Pte Cameron, Allan Mcleod, enlisted with the 48th Highlanders on 01 January 1943. Cameron was running his farm in Artemesia Township in Grey County and since 29 October 1940 had been a member of the Volunteer Civil Guard. Having sold the farm in 1942, Allan Cameron went with his friend Grant Muir to enlist […]
Pte Dickie, Peter
Records show B75424 Pte Dickie, P. M. in Italy, being transferred on 26 May 1944 from the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders to their X-3 list. (The X-3 is those in hospital, back from the battalion’s Field Ambulance), suggesting more than a simple injury or sickness. Pte Dickie had lied about his age when he joined […]
Pte Taylor, Jack
B75032 Jack Taylor enlisted with the 48th Highlanders in Toronto. . He sailed to England to join the 1st Bn, 48th Highlanders. On 27 April, 1943 a record shows he forfeited 7 Days pay for being AWOL from 24 to 26 April, then 5 days pay for AWOL from 16 to 20 May and 35 […]
CSM Webb, Howard S.
Howard S Webb enlisted with the 48th Highlanders of Canada in Toronto on 19 June 1940 and was given the service number B74476. His date of birth was 24 September 1907 and religion Church of England. After some training in Ontario (Camp Borden near Orillia) he sailed to England to join the 1st Battalion, 48th […]
Pte Barwick, Stanley – 1st Bn
B72584 Barwick, Stanley enlisted with the 48th Highlanders in Toronto on 4 September 1939, just days after war was declared. In Italy, Pte Barwick was wounded in action on 11 October 1944, a shrapnel wound (HE) to both legs. The battalion was in the mud of Lombardy, chasing the Germans north from Rimini. NOK: Mother […]
Naylor, Archie Elgin in Full Dress – 1907
Pte Naylor, Archie Elgin, born in Ontario, was a 48th Highlander in the early years of the regiment. He gave his occupation as barber. After leaving the regiment he married Florence Christina Rosborough from Peterboro in Regina in 1912, then moved to BC, then Sumas, Washington State then California in 1928. (more research required)
Taylor, H.
B74327, Pte Taylor. H. enlisted in Toronto with the 48th Highlanders, 2nd Battalion (the home battalion) on 27 May 1940. He was then ordered to join a draft for overseas on 10 June. (The draft is the word for those who volunteered to join the 1st Battalion for overseas duty.) More research required.
Lt Walter Brechin Reid, 1st Bn – POW
Lt Walter Brechin Reid transferred in Italy on 25 May 1944 from the X-4 List (48th Highlanders) as a reinforcement to the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders. The battalion at that time was at rest at Piedmonte d’Alife following the 48th’s successful breaching of the Adolph Hitler Line at Pontecorvo on 22/23 May. The battalion remained […]
O’Dell, Ronald Kitchener
B70462 Sergeant Ronald Kitchener O’Dell was on a Part 2 Order listing the members of the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada who embarked from NW E (Northwest Europe) on 4 September 1945 and disembarked in the UK on 5 September as the battalion was leaving the continent to return to Canada. A prior document, […]
Garland, Roy Allston – 1st Bn
(Family information only. Requires research). G7117 Roy Allston Garland, born in Moncton, New Brunswick, enlisted with the Field Battery, RCA (7DD). Overseas, he was with the 8th Field Battery, RCA in the 1st Canadian Division in Italy and transferred at some time to the 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders.