Canada's Highland Regiments

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Sergeant
48th Canadian Highlanders
c. 1900's

An unidentified sergeant of the 48th Canadian Highlanders. Members of the regiment's band founded the Kilties who performed highland and military music around the world including Soldiers of the Queen. Elements of the 48th also saw service in South Africa during the Boer War. The regiment still exists within the Canadian Army.

Cabinet Style Mounted Photograph
4 inches by 6 inches (10cm x 15cm)
Unknown Photographer
Unknown Canadian Location
c. 1900



Closeup detail of sporran badge:

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Pvt Donald A. New, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 72nd Infantry Bn C.E.F.



Soldier of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada

Notes:

A carte postale portrait taken in France of a soldier of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada.
The 72nd was recruited in British Columbia and mobilized in Vancouver.
The battalion arrived in France on 13 August 1916.

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WW1 Canadian Pipers and Drummers, 21st Bn. C.E.F.



Drummer Harry B Lewis
KIA Nov 27, 1915



Warrant Officers: 21st Bn CEF
L to R: Pipe Major John "Jock" MacDougall, RSM Jordan MC DSM, Bandmaster Reg Hinchey



21st Bn CEF Pipe Band (1915)

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http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/sgowen/85th.html

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One of my favorites photos
(I love the variation in headgear):






William LeRoy Johnson
1899 - 1985

Born: August 26th,1899
Truro, Nova Scotia

Son of Daniel and Mary (Leigh) Johnson

Died in 1985
Buried: Terrace Hill Cemetery, Truro,N.S.



John Stanley Power
1898 - 1983

Born: August 18, 1898
in Sheffield Mills, Kings Co. Nova Scotia.

Son of Frederick Weatherby Power
and Bertha ( Strong ) Power of Sheffield Mills, N.S.

Married Lottie Edna Cahoon in 1922
and resided in Lakeville, Kings Co. N.S.

Stanley was a farmer and Lottie a nurse.

They had six children:
Doris, Bill, Shirley, Hilma, Jean and Harold.

Died: September 10,1983
in Berwick, N.S. at age 85.




Samuel Merle McLean
1895 - 1980

Born: January 23,1895
Brookline,Massachusetts,U.S.A.

Parents: Louis and Anzenneta (Kelly)
of Port Saxon, Nova Scotia

Married: 1920, Rhoda Siteman
of Ship Harbour, Halifax County, Nova Scotia
They had 14 children.

Died: December 27,1980
Quincy, Massachusetts,U.S.A.



William Tait Robertson
1884-1976

Born Jan. 10, 1884, Riverview, Co Cumberland, NS

Son of Evan C. Robertson and Ruth (Tait) Roberts

Married Mary Isabel Maitland in 1921

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Pipe Major Hugh MacBeth, the Calgary Highlanders

The first Pipe Major of the Calgary Highlanders was Hugh MacBeth, who led the Regimental Pipes and Drums from 1921 to 1923. Born in Scotland, MacBeth had immigrated to Canada, and served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War, most notably in the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), a famous unit of the 1st Canadian Division that was also the parent formation of the 10th Battalion, the forerunners of The Calgary Highlanders. MacBeth also played in The Calgary Highlanders after stepping down as Pipe Major, and is identified in the photo (below) as the band's Pipe Sergeant at the time of the Canadian Pacific Railway Scottish Music Festival in Banff, probably in 1927. The CPR held a series of music and folk arts festivals from 1927 to 1931, organized by publicity agent John Murray Gibbon.



Pipe Major Neil Sutherland of The Calgary Highlanders

Pipe Major Neil Sutherland of The Calgary Highlanders during the parade of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division in Dieppe on 3 September 1944. The Division had provided the bulk of the combat force (with several hundred British Commandos and 50 U.S. Army Rangers) during the famous Raid of August 1942, leaving behind 2,000 prisoners at the end of the day. The Calgary Highlanders' mortar platoon was sent to Dieppe but did not disembark; Sergeants Bill Lyster and Bert Pittaway were Mentioned in Despatches for shooting down a German aircraft while on anti-aircraft duties offshore. Captain Ted Insinger, assigned to a brigade headquarters, was killed while ashore. The Division returned to the European continent in July 1944; by 1 September the Battle of Normandy had been concluded and Allied forces were across the Seine River in force. The German garrison at Dieppe showed no stomach for a rematch and evacuated the city as the division approached; on 3 September 8,000 men marched 10 abreast through the city to mark the liberation and commemorate the 800 dead buried in the nearby cemetery after the 1942 battle.

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13th Platton 'D' Company
2nd Battalion 16th Canadian Scottish
Salt Spring Island
1931