Message from the Commanding Officer
Hello Highlanders – We’re well into May now – and finally the weather has caught up with the calendar! And the end of the Training Year is in sight. Although we have about 4 weeks of training left, we’re already seeing soldiers depart, or getting ready to depart, for training and courses this summer. This […]
Message from the Honorary Colonel
GREETINGS HIGHLANDERS – SERVING SOLDIERS AND FORMER ACTIVE AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENTAL FAMILY – As we continue, amidst Covid related restrictions and related negative news, I want to share some recent positive stories that relate to, or involve, the 48th Highlanders. In Ontario, we have hit the target of giving at least one […]
Virtual Act of Remembrance 2021 – on YouTube (with subtitles)
Due to Covid-19, the 48th Highlanders of Canada conducted a small ceremony to enable our regiment to come together virtually and remember those who came before us. After the gas attacks during the 2nd battle of Ypres, only 150 out of the 912 soldiers of the 48th Highlanders of Canada answered roll call in the […]
From your Regimental Association Executive
Our 48th Highlanders Regimental Association Group page on Facebook continues to attract a lot of users. It is our main branch of the new Association. Check back frequently… but DONT BE AFRAID TO POST PICTURES AND RECOLLECTIONS THAT RELATE TO YOUR SERVICE! That is why it is there. If you have friends that served with […]
106th Anniversary of 2nd Ypres – Canada’s Baptism of Fire
Today is the 106th anniversary – to the exact day – of the gas attack against the Canadians during the 2nd battle of Ypres on April 24, 1915. It was Canada’s and the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) first major engagement of The Great War – it was to be their ‘Baptism of Fire’. Their desperate […]
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDING OFFICER
Hello Highlanders – I trust this finds you well – or as well as you can be, in the midst of the third wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and another stay-at-home order in Ontario. I’m going to take this opportunity to bring you up to speed on five items: HCol MacIntyre – we received […]
104th Anniversary of the Battle of Arras
Have your days merged to the point where you look at the rubbish bin in the kitchen and think, “half full, must be Monday” ? It feels like that for me these days here in France. Things have become decidedly complicated since the beginning of the new year. I live just inside the Somme but am […]
Message from the Padre
As I write this, many of us are marking Easter week and I can’t help but note that it was on an Easter Monday, April 9, 1917, that the Regiment participated in the famous battle of Vimy Ridge. The weather on that fateful day 104 years ago was cold and sleety, quite different from the […]
Message from the Regimental Sergeant Major
As I write this first blog from the RSMs desk, I am reflecting on what has happened over the past year. Who would have thought as we collectively “took a knee” to help flatten the curve that we would still be dealing with this pandemic a year later. The COVID 19 mitigation measures that have […]
From the 48th Highlanders Museum
This Day in History 1st Commanding Officer of 48th Highlanders Confirmed on 25 March 1892 The appointment of Lieutenant Colonel John Irvine Davidson as the first Commanding Officer of the 48th Highlanders was confirmed on 25 March 1892. He had been gazetted (provisionally) on 20 November 1891 just weeks after the authorization of the regiment by the Government of Canada […]
