Stories categorised in 'Italy'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
When I arrived in November 1944 I was knocked sideway at the Royal Opera's programme for the winter...
The senior volcanologist, Professor Imbo, warned the military authorities at Caserta of the imminent danger...
And then far to the rear of the staid old Opera House, from the topmost tier of boxes, an uncouth officer...
Off to Church Crookham After my training was completed, I was posted to Church Crookham near Aldershot and...
February 1944 and we were virtually static about one third up the back of the leg that is Italy's...
So in the late evening of the 15th we were once more on the move to take up our positions ready for...
When we arrived in the Carroceta Gully, half of us in the Pioneer Platoon, myself included, were detailed...
The next day they asked for volunteers to take up a position in a house in the front of our own lines,...
Italian fleet surrender Reg saw and photographed the Italian fleet as it approached Malta to surrender, but...
A slightly lighter tale from this period is of my dad's mate, private Potts, who was regarded as the...
Our driver, Charlie Bailey from Keighley, north Yorkshire, reported that we were running low on petrol....
A first-class fighting unit It was during the battle for Ortona that the Canadian 1st Infantry Division ran...
However, he and his men always retained their loyalty to King Peter and to General Draza Mihailovic, the...
The Italian officers and guards abandoned the camp and Fred, his friend Ron Ford and an Irish Guardsman...
By the time I was fighting in the area around Casino, the allies had heavily bombed the monastery but it...
Because of this we had to revert to using Mules to pull the guns... This was sometimes funny as the Mule...
By the time the Battalion landed in Sicily a third of the island was in Allied hands, but that didn't...
The Kissing Cup When the General in charge of the landing on Peter Beach at Anzio in Italy finally decided...
As we anchored in the bay of Naples at 22:00 captain Belben received a signal ordering him to prepare for...
On the 24th of July my unit, the 49th Light Ack Ack Regiment, disembarked North of Avola, Sicily as part of...
I wrote: 'I have considerable qualms when I think of a Socialist Foreign Minister, a post which seems...
Fighting our way from Anzio, to the outskirts of a small town, which we initially called “The...
In late January 1945 my feet became infected with weeping sores which our Medical Officer diagnosed as...
Our self-appointed spokesman, who could speak Italian quite well, talked to Mama and when she left he said,...
So I had to follow him up through the village, along a track to where the Irish Fusiliers had had a right...
De-fascism programme, Italy After treatment for shell-shock my father was judged not fit for active service...
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