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Caption:
Group Of Canadian Officers, With Colonel Sam Hughes Seated In The Centre ;
The 48th Highlanders (Canadian) Leaving Toronto Before Embarking For Europe.

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William Charles Lewis with his brothers on either side of him taken during their service in World War I.
William Lewis served with the 48th Highlanders of Canada and lived at 209 Oak Street, Toronto.




George Hugh Cleal
Born December 15, 1894
Died April 24, 1915, Age 20
Force Army
Division 15th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Home Address 25 Nanton Avenue
George Cleal was born in Dayton, Ohio but moved to Toronto, where he entered UTS in 1910. He volunteered in the second month of the war, joining the 48th Highlanders, where he was a popular member of A Company. He was killed at Langemarck, near Ypres, in Belgium, during the first German chlorine gas attack of the war. While French soldiers fled, Cleal and 2000 other Canadians - perhaps including his fellow UTS student Laurence Shields - held their position. His body was never recovered, and he is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

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Men from the 15th Battalion, 48th Highlanders of Canada, newly arrived on the siding of Exhibition Station (not the current one; the siding pictured was further west). Having reached Halifax on 7 May 1919, the battalion history tells us that the men entrained for Toronto and after "a gay journey and an unforgettable one," the unit's 782 officers and enlisted men "rolled up to the Exhibition sidings and were clambering out in a hysteria of greetings as half the city crowded the grounds to meet them."

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Lieutenant Wilfred Mavor of the 48th (Canadian) Highlanders arrived in the first Canadian contingent to the Western Front.
Wilfred Mavor was the son of Professor Mavor.

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Corporal John Cannon Stothers

John Cannon Stothers joined the CEF with his younger brother, Carman Edmund Stothers, in 1916. They joined the 170th battalion (Missisauga Horse) and went overseas in October of 1916. John remained in England with a reserve battalion until November 1917 when he was transferred to the 15th battalion (48th Highlanders) and was part of the Army of Occupation until 1919. Carman left for France with the 75th battalion in December 1917 and was at Vimy Ridge in April of 1917. He was wounded in a trench raid in June of 1917 and returned to Canada by December.
He fully recovered from his wounds.

John Cannon Stothers and Jim Paterson, 15th Battalion, 1916:


post war photo:
Note the "service at the front" badge on the front pocket.
This was given to all returning soldiers

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48th Highlanders march from the Armouries to the CNE training camp
October 7, 1939