LCol Armour Adamson Miller
Commanding Officer 134th Battalion (48th Highlanders) CEF 1916 – 1917 Killed in Action serving with 19th Battalion CEF Along with the 15th and 92nd Battalions, the 134th was the third overseas unit organized by the 48th Highlanders. Initiated by Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Donald, the battalion began recruiting in November 1915 to replace the losses suffered […]
Capt. Frederick William (Wyld) Macdonald, MC
Captain Frederick William (Wyld) Macdonald, MC, VD joined the 48th in 1912 at age 21 upon graduation from Royal Military College (RMC). He went overseas with the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) in 1914 and was captured at 2nd Ypres on 22 April 1915 during the first chlorine gas attack of the war. He was awarded […]
Brigadier William Campbell Macdonald, VD
Commanding Officer 48th Battalion “Highlanders” 1900 – 1906 An original 48th Highlander officer, William Campbell Macdonald was appointed Major upon joining in February 1892 from the Queen’s Own Rifles. He was Adjutant of Canada’s Bisley Rifle team in 1892 and a shooting member in 1896. He became the Regiment’s third Commanding Officer on 8 June […]
LCol Kenric Rudolphus (Rud) Marshall, CMG, DSO, (MID***), VD
Commanding Officer 48th Regiment (Highlanders) 1923 – 1929 Honorary Lieutenant Colonel 1947 -1952 Honorary Colonel 1952 – 1962 Kenric Rudolphus (Rud) Marshall was born in Toronto 13 October 1880. He was the son of Noel George Lambert Marshall (1852 – 1926) and Harriet Isabel Hogg Marshall (1854 – 1904). In 1908, Kenric married Marion Janet […]
LCol Duncan Donald, VD
CO Home Bn August 1914 – December 1915, CO 134th Bn December 1915 – August 1916 Born on 17 December 1869, LCol Duncan Donald attended University of Toronto and Osgood Hall and was called to the Bar in 1894. In 1910, he was appointed Secretary of the Law Society of Upper Canada until 1912 when […]
Brigadier Ian Strachan JOHNSTON, CBE, DSO*, ED, CD (MID)
Commanding Officer 1st Battalion 48th Highlanders of Canada (Canadian Active Service Force) December 1942 – June 1944 Honourary LCol (48th Highlanders of Canada) 1964 – 1967 and HCol 1967 – 1972. Ian Strachan Johnston CBE DSO (2) ED KC was born on 12 August 1908 in Toronto, Ontario. He was educated at Ridley College […]
Brigadier William Wallace Southam DSO, ED
Commanding Officer First Battalion (August 1940 -January 1942) Commander 6 Canadian Infantry Brigade (January – 19 August 1942) William Wallace “Bill” Southam attended Royal Military College from 1918 to 1922, graduating with the Cadet rank of CM (Company Sergeant Major). He immediately joined the 48th Highlanders of Canada in 1922 at age 21. He was employed […]
Lt John Frederick Williams
Lt. John Frederick Williams was the son of John H. and Annie Williams, Irish immigrants from Dublin. He was born in Peterborough, Ontario on the 23rd December 1915, which he continued to call home into adulthood. Mr. Williams was a production clerk working at a wire factory, but he had completed postsecondary school to work […]
Captain WILSON, JOHN ALEXANDER
Captain Wilson was killed in action in the second day of the Hitler Line battle, (recorded as 23 May 1944) near Pontecorvo, Italy. NOK: Son of Richard Steele Wilson and Mabel Milne Wilson; husband of Elizabeth Stewart Wilson, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lieutenant WOOD, WILLIAM BALLANTYNE
During the attack on San Marco, Italy, Lt Wood, platoon commander in Dog Company, was in the open ensuring that the men of his platoon were under cover during severe mortar and artillery shelling. NOK: Son of Herbert Harold and Georgiana Home Wood, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Graduate in Law of Toronto University.