48th Highlanders Regimental Memorial
Municipality/Province: Toronto, ON
Memorial number: 35091-028
Type: Pillar - granite and bronze
Address: 110 Wellesley St W
Location: Queen's Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 43.6658325 Long: -79.3930588
Submitted by: Sgt A.R. Percival; Art Johnson; Sandra Lougheed
Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
The 48th Highlanders Regimental Memorial was erected in 1923, in memory of the Officers and men of the 48th Highlanders who gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars. It is a dignified and beautiful monument on the north side of Queen's Park facing north on the road. The years of commemoration are indicated on the north side of the monument as 1914 - 1916. On each side of the granite pillar, set on an elevated base of six steps, is the regimental crest surmounted on the face of the monument by a sheathed sword carved in the stone. On one side, the crest bears the words "15th Canadian Battalion", on the east side - "134 Overseas", and, on the west side - "92 Canada Overseas". The names of the battles from the First War in which the regiment took its full part and in which 61 officers and 1,406 non-commissioned officers gave their lives are carved in the stone - Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, Drocourt-Queant, Canal Du Nord, Ypres, Festubert, Mount Sorrel, Somme and Vimy. The designer of this beautiful monument, surmounted by the Christian Cross of Sacrifice carved in each of the four sides, was the late Captain (then Brigadier) E. W. Haldenby, C.B.E., M. C., V. D. This memorial was unveiled by His Excellency, Lord Byng, Governor-General of Canada at the Armistice-Remembrance Parade of the Regiment in November of that year. A further ten Battle Honours were added after the Second War to honour the 351 dead from that conflict. Alvan Sherlock Mathers was the architect.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
SOUTH AFRICA
1914 - 1918
TO THE GLORIOUS
MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO DIED AND
TO THE UNDYING
HONOUR OF THOSE
WHO SERVED
THIS MONUMENT
IS ERECTED BY
THEIR REGIMENT
THE 48TH
HIGHLANDERS
OF CANADA
DILEAS GULBRATH
1939 - 1945
[right side/côté droit]
HILL 70
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
DROCOURT-QUEANT
CANAL DU NORD
[back/arrière]
LANDING IN
SICILY
ASSORO
CAMPOBASSO
ORTONA
LIRI VALLEY
HITLER LINE
GOTHIC LINE
RIMINI LINE
LAMONE CROSSING
APELDOORN
[left side/côté gauche]
YPRES
FESTUBERT
MOUNT SORREL
SOMME
VIMY
Street view
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