48th Highlanders of Canada

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 15 October 2000. Corrected and updated 15.04.2006

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	48th Highlanders of Canada
Regimental Crest © DND	Ontario, Canada


Titles & Lineage History & War Service Battle Honours Colours, Standards and Guidons Badges and Uniforms	Colonel-in-Chief Honorary Colonels Traditions Alliances Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time Reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency

How to find information about individuals who served in this corps

Titles and Lineage

Alphabetic Index of Titles
Numeric Index of Titles


	1891.10.16	48th Battalion (Highlanders) raised with HQ and eight companies in Toronto, Ont.
	1900.05.08	48th Regiment (Highlanders)
	1915.03.15	reorganised in four-company establishment
	1920.05.15	The 48th Regiment (Highlanders)
	1921.03.01	reorganised to perpetuate CEF:
		1st Battalion, perpetuating 15th Battalion CEF 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 92nd Battalion CEF 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 134th Battalion CEF
	1930.08.01	48th Highlanders of Canada HQ and four coys at Toronto
	1945.06.01	mobilised 3rd Battalion (48Hld), 1st Canadian Infantry Regiment
	1951.05.04	volunteers raised B Company (48Hld), 1st Canadian Highland Battalion
	1952.04.01	volunteers raised B Company (48Hld), 2nd Canadian Highland Battalion

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Regiments


		48th Highlanders (Army site)
		48th Highlanders of Canada (Regimental site)
		48th Highlanders of Canada, by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)

Deployment and Service:

Colour Key:

War service

Overseas service

Home service


	*Biography and Gallantry Awards:*
		[no external sites have been found]

	*Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:*
		48th Highlanders of Canada Old Comrades Association, by Ron Kierstead

	*Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:*
		Regimental Museum, Toronto (Regimental site)

Battle Honours

Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars


	South Africa 1899-1900 The Great War: The Second World War: Landing in Sicily, Valguarnera, Assoro, Agira, Adrano, Regalbutto, Sicily 1943, Landing at Reggio, Campobasso, Torella, San Leonardo, The Gully, Ortona, San Nicola-San Tommaso, Cassino II, Gustav Line, Liri Valley, Hitler Line, Gothic Line, Lamone Crossing, Misano Ridge, Rimini Line, San Martino-San Lorenzo, Fosso Vecchio, Italy 1943-1945, Apeldoorn, North-West Europe 1945

Colours, Standards and Guidons

Introduction to Colours


	Record of Colours:

Uniforms and Badges

Badges:

Armorial Description: Within an annulus inscribed DILEAS GU BRATH, the numeral 48; above the numeral and resting on a bar, a falcon's head, couped; below the numeral a curved scroll inscribed HIGHLANDERS

Uniform:

tartan: Davidson (kilt)

Colonel-in-Chief

Index of Royal Colonels


	1947.12.01	HM Queen Elizabeth II

Honorary Colonels



	2001	Lt-Col. Richard Read
	2003

Traditions


	Motto:	Dileas gu brath
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:
	Marches:	The Highland Laddie
	Musicians:
	48th Highlanders Pipes and Drums (Band site) Pipes and Drums of the 48th Highlanders of Canada (Highland Net)
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*

Alliances

Introduction to Alliances


		The Gordon Highlanders	1904-1994
		The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)	1994-present

Bibliography

How To Find Books


	Regimental Journal:


	Full Histories:
		Fraser, Alexander. History of the 48th Highlanders : The 48th Highlanders of Toronto, Canadian Militia. Toronto : E.L. Ruddy, 1900.
		Beattie, Kim. 48th Highlanders of Canada, 1891-1928. Toronto : The Southam Press, 1932.
		Beattie, Kim. Dileas: A history of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, 1929-1956. Toronto : Regimental Association, printed by T.H. Best Co., 1957.

	Short Histories: