RSM (WO1) Robert Grant Henderson
Sergeant Major 134th Battalion (48th Highlanders) 1916-1918 Robert Grant Henderson was an original 48th Highlander (#91). In 1916 he was appointed to be Sergeant-Major of the 134th Battalion (48th Highlanders) CEF and arrived in the UK on board the SS Scotian 19-Aug-16. In Aug-1917 he returned on furlough to Canada and was released from […]
Sgt-Mjr Alexander Rose
Sergeant Major 48th Battalion/Regiment “Highlanders” 1896 – 1913 Sgt Alexander Rose was an original 48th Highlander. He and his brother George were numbers 54 and 55 on the original roll. On 24-May-1892 when the Regiment was presented its first stand of Colours by Governor General Lord Stanley served in the Colour Party as one of […]
Sgt-Mjr JW Kirkness
Sergeant Major 48th Regiment “Highlanders” 1913-1919 James W Kirkness (No 357) was an original 48th Highlander serving in B Company. In 1913 he became the third Sergeant Major of the 48th Highlanders succeeding Sergeant Major Rose and remained Sgt Mjr of the Home Battalion from 1914 to 1919.
RSM (WO1) Thomas Cotton MM
Regimental Sergeant Major 48th Highlanders of Canada 1943-1948 Thomas Cotton joined the 48th Highlanders and was serving as a Sergeant in the Regiment in 1916 when he joined the 134th Battalion 48th Highlanders Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). He later was transferred to the 4th Battalion CEF and served with them. until the end of the […]
LCol Hamilton Cassels, Jr. MBE
Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada 1945 Hamilton (Laddie) Cassels, Jr. was born on August 1st, 1895, in Toronto, Ontario, to Hamilton Cassels (b.Quebec, 1854-d.Toronto, 1925), Barrister and Mary Yarwood Baldwin. Cassels earned a degree from the University of Toronto in 1913. He was admitted to Osgoode Hall Law School in 1917 and […]
LCol Joseph Emm Frowde Seagram ED
Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada 1943-1945 Married Marjorie Houston of Chatham on June 1, 1929. LCol J. E. F. Seagram joined the 48th Highlanders militia battalion in Toronto prior to 1939. He was promoted from Lt. to Captain as Transport Officer in the spring of 1939. When war was declared in early […]
LCol Ian Macintosh Roe Sinclair, DSO OBE MC VD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1930-1932 Commanding Officer 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Commanding Officer 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Jamaica 1941-42) Born in Toronto on 16 June 1891, Ian MacIntosh Roe Sinclair was a student at the University of Toronto and member of the Queen’s Own Rifles. After the […]
LCol George MacKenzie Alexander, MC, (MID), VD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1936-1939 Officer Commanding No 2 Company – 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) Prisoner of War He was born May 1, 1886 and was educated at Upper Canada College. He was enrolled in the 15th Bn as a Captain on 20 September 1914 in Valcartier. He stated his […]
LCol WIlliam Charles Warren Darling, VD
Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada (Home Battalion) 1915-1919 Commanding Officer 48th Highlanders of Canada 1919-1923 Born 22 Jul 1879 William Charles Warren Darling joined the 48th Highlanders as a private on 31 March 1897. He was the first of four generations of the Darling family to wear the Davidson tartan. Darling assumed command of […]
Capt William G (Gus) Angus MC
Officer Commanding “D” Company 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada (CASF) 1944-1945 Capt Bill (Gus) Angus joined 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada in the field during the third week of October 1944 transferring in after 30 Reconnaissance (Essex) Regiment was disbanded as part of a Canadian Army reorganization. He joined “A”Coy as a […]