The Regiment has had excellent books published about its history; service in the regiment has also inspired its own soldiers to write and be published in the field of military history.   This is a list of those known historians and authors.

Major Roy Farran, DSO, MC

Roy Farran was born in England in 1921, attended school in India, and after service in the Second World War retired to Calgary (at the age of 31) to raise cattle. His Second World War exploits could (and have) fill volumes; Farran was a Commando officer, serving in the now famous Special Air Service. He first saw action in North Africa with the 3rd Hussars before joining the SAS, commanding a troop of tanks. Farran was moved to Crete where he was wounded in action and taken prisoner. After recuperating in a Greek hospital, Farran escaped by boat and were adrift for nine days before being rescued by a British destroyer. After joining the SAS he led many raids behind enemy lines, large and small, and was highly decorated. He won the DSO twice and the Military Cross three times, as well as the US Legion of Merit.

He remained in the SAS after the Second World War, being wrongfully accused of the murder of a 16 year old Jewish terrorist in Palestine while serving there. When a mail bomb sent to "R. Farran" at his mother's home killed his brother Rex, he decided to leave the Army.

Once in Calgary, Farran founded the North Hill News in 1954 (at about the same time he wrote the Calgary Highlanders' history), and served as city alderman between 1961 and 1971. Elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, he served as Solicitor General from 1975 to 1979.

Roy Farran's account of the Calgary Highlanders (known widely to the regiment as "The Green Book") was published ten years after the conclusion of the Second World War.  The book today is a collector's item, long out of print and fetching large sums on the used book market.

The History of the Calgary Highlanders 1921- 1954 (Bryant Press, Calgary, AB, 1954)

Daniel Dancocks was a graduate of the University of Alberta, and also widely published in the subject of Canadian military history, including a volume on the subject of Canadian prisoners of war.  His interest in the First World War led to visits to the Ypres Salient, and the highly acclaimed book Welcome to Flanders Fields: The First Canadian Battle of the Great War: Ypres, 1915. 

His research into the Ypres battle, in which the Tenth Battalion played such a vital role, made him a natural candidate when the Regimental Funds Foundation commissioned an author to write the Regiment's First World War history.  Gallant Canadians, produced two years after Welcome to Flanders Fields, may be considered one of the best Great War era regimental histories yet written.  Dancocks went on to produce an excellent summary of Canadian involvement in Italy in the Second World War (D-Day Dodgers), and unfortunately plans to write the Second World War history of the Regiment went unfulfilled in the wake of his untimely death.

Terry Copp has been published extensively on the subject of Canadian military history, including volumes on battlefield psychology, operational research, the fighting in Normandy and Holland, and co-authorship of a regimental history of the Royal Regina Rifle Regiment.  Terry Copp is a professor of history, and also contributed regularly to Legion Magazine.

His book The Brigade is unique in being the first published volume to examine Canadian military history from the level of an infantry brigade.  The brigade he selected was the Fifth Canadian Brigade, to whom the Calgary Highlanders belonged during the Second World War.

David Bercuson, born in Montreal in 1945, has become a leading name in Canadian history. A graduate with honours of Sir George Williams University, he finished his MA at the University of Toronto in 1967, and his PhD in 1971. After years as an assistant professor, he became a full professor at the University of Calgary in 1978 and in 1989 was made Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies there.

After early experiences in radio and editing the Canadian Historical review, Bercuson has moved on to contributing a regular column to The Calgary Herald, as well as commentary appearances on CBC and CTV newscasts.

Bercuson's other published works are diverse, from True Patriot: The Life of Brooke Claxton, to Canada and the Birth of Israel. Other military works include Significant Incident: Canada's Army, the Airborne, and the Murder in Somalia and Blood on the Hills: The Canadian Army in the Korean War.

 
Battalion of Heroes: The Calgary Highlanders in World War Two (Calgary Highlanders Regimental Funds Foundation, Calgary, AB,  1994) ISBN 0-9694616-1-5

Authors

The following is a list of those who have served in the Calgary Highlanders and been published in the field of Canadian military history.

Ed Ford arrived served with the Calgary Highlanders as a platoon commander in Normandy, and though briefly evacuated in August with battle exhaustion, remained with a rifle company until 19 September 1944,  when he took over the duties of Intelligence Officer of the battalion.  He held the position until 2 November 1944, when Captain Keller, MM took over the position.

Lieutenant Ford's duties as IO included keeping the battalion's War Diary.  While the diary has not been published in a formal sense, Lieutenant Ford's entries were very notable for the level of detail that went into them and make for fascinating reading as well as being an invaluable documentation of the battalion's history.

After his period as Intelligence Officer, he went on to command 14 Platoon in action, and survived the war.  He passed away at age 90 on 28 August 2004.

Jeffery Williams was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1920 and served with the Calgary Highlanders both before the Second World War, and after Mobilization in the First Battalion, later serving in staff duties in Northwest Europe.   After WW II he commanded a company of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Korea.  He has taught at the Staff College and held military appointments in Germany, in the Canadian Embassy in Washington and the Canadian High Commission in London.  He retired from the Canadian Forces in 1971.

His awards for writing included the Governor-General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the University of British Columbia's Canadian Biography Award, the latter for his biography of Lord Byng, the Governor General of Canada and commander of the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge.

In 2003, the University of Calgary Press published his autobiography Far From Home: A Memoir of a 20th Century Soldier  Containing 374 pages and many rare photos, the book covers his entire life and is needless to say very well written and engaging.  ISBN: 1-55238-119-6 Other works most directly related to The Calgary Highlanders include The Long Left Flank : The Hard Fought Way to the Reich, 1944-1945 (Toronto, Ontario: Stoddart, 1988). 384pp  ISBN: 0773721940 A 348 page book covering the fighting in Northwest Europe from the end of the Normandy Campaign to VE Day.  Many quotes from Calgary Highlanders and good coverage of all the fighting seen by Canadian soldiers in France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany from September 1944 to May 1945.

The Capture of Walcheren Island, 1944 (Roosevelt Study Center, 1994).  24pp

A pamphlet on the capture of Walcheren Island.

Additionally, Mister Williams has published a regimental history of the PPCLI as well as a biography of Hamilton Gault, founder of that regiment.

Frank P. Holm served as a signaller with the Calgary Highlanders from September of 1944 to April of 1945 and was a direct participant in many of the Regiment's most famous actions including Walcheren Causeway and Groningen.   

In 1989, ex-Private Holm published a succinct but highly detailed and well-written account of his service. 

A Backward Glance: The Personal Story of an Infantry Signaller with the Calgary Highlanders in World War Two (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Self Published, 1989)

Darrell Knight served as a Canadian Forces paratrooper during the Cold War era, in addition to training with military forces in Israel and Belize. In addition to military consulting for the National Post and CBC, he became a founding member of the Calgary Military Historical Society in 1978. His first book was entitled Pete Knight: The Cowboy King and as of December 2006 he is writing a book on the history of 665 Air Observation Post Squadron. 

Mr. Knight also edited the book History of the 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion, C.E.F. which was re-published in 2006.

Born in 1969, Michael Dorosh joined 2137 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps (The Calgary Highlanders) in 1984.  In 1987 he was taken on strength with the Regimental Pipes and Drums, where he served until 1996 (including service as Public Relations NCO) when he was forced to remuster to the Finance Clerk trade, followed by another remuster to Resource Management Support Clerk following the amalgamation of the Finance and Administration clerk trades throughout the Canadian Forces.   Service in the Battalion Orderly Room, "A" Company and "B" Company followed, as a clerk, company piper, and driver/signaler.  Corporal Dorosh's first book was published in 1995, on the subject of Second World War Canadian Army uniforms, followed by a second volume on the same subject in 2001. 

 
Corporal Dorosh also helped form the Calgary Highlanders Heritage Section, and is currently working on a third book on uniforms.  He has also written a pamphlet on the Second Canadian Division which will be published soon.

CANUCK: Clothing and Equipping the Canadian Soldier 1939-45 Volume I: Battledress, Weapons and Equipment (Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 1995) 156pp, ISBN 1-57510-005-3

Dressed to Kill (Service Publications Inc., Ottawa, ON, 2001) 88pp ISBN 1-894581-07-5