Cape Breton Highlanders
Fromer Commanding Officers

Lieutenant Colonel William Bingham 13 October 1871
Lieutenant Colonel John Lemuel Bethune 07 April 1893
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Farqhar McRae 08 April 1902
Lieutenant Colonel John Ducan McRae 01 January 1908
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Ducan McRee 21 May 1915
Lieutenant Colonel Guy MacLean Matheson, DSO, MC,MM 04 May 1920
Lieutenant Colonel Murdock Dan Ewin McKeigan, VD 02 May 1921
Lieutenant Colonel William George MacRae, VD 02 May 1927
Lieutenant Colonel Roderick Theodore Chisolm, ED 01 February 1937
Lieutenant Colonel Edward H. Small, ED October 1940
Lieutenant Colonel J.B. Weir, OBE, ED April 1942
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Boyd Somerville, DSO August 1944
Lieutenant Colonel Sylvester B. Mackinnon, DSO June 1945
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Fraser Crooks, MM 11 February 1946
Lieutenant Colonel Angus Norman MacDonald,ED 29 March 1949
Lieutenant Colonel Carl Dauphinee Arnold, ED, CD 01 June 1953
Lieutenant Colonel John Edward Thorpe, CD 30 June 1959
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Leo McIntyre 01 May 1962
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Legge, EM, CD 01 November 1966
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hayward Kipping, CD 01 November 1967
Lieutenant Colonel William Charles MacLellan, CD 01 November 1971
Lieutenant Colonel Terrence MacDonald Mosley, CD 01 January 1974
Lieutenant Colonel Ian Duncan Curry Macintyre, CD 01 September 1975
Lieutenant Colonel Gary Phillip Curtis, CD 03 June 1979
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Gabriel, CD 03 September 1982
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Hugh Johnstone, CD 03 September 1985
Lieutenant Colonel Howard John Allen, CD 14 October 1989
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Gordon Parsons, OMM, CD 14 October 1992
Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Dwight Kavanagh, CD 01 March 1998
Lieutenant Colonel M.L.Alteen CD

September 2000
Lieutenant Colonel G.Troicuk CD September 2003
Lieutenant Colonel J.F. Gillis, CD 16 September 2007

 

Commanding Officers of the C.E.F. WWI

85th Bn Nova Scotia Highlanders

Lieutenant Colonel A.H. Borden, DSO
Lieutenant Colonel E. Phinney
Lieutenant Colonel J.M. Millar, DSO, MC
Lieutenant Colonel J.L. Ralston, CMG, DSO

185th Bn Cape Breton Highlanders

Lieutenant Colonel F.P.Day