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It then rested and refitted after its long period on front-line duty. crowded and crammed from the dungeons to the rafters. GIs (TRUST) took me along with two of my friends to their mess hall to feed Our mutual friend Frank Mee has just drawn my attention to the fact that Barnard Castle is (and was) in Durham and not Northumberland. Three months after I was demobbed I received a payment from the War Office of six shillings and four pence. I asked this before but I didn't get an answer; My grandfather was in the army during ww2 and I was too young (7/8) to really know what he did during the war before he died and my mum doesnt know either, just that he was deployed in Italy. These messages were added to this story by site members between June 2003 and January 2006. It took part in the battle for the River Sangro between 19 November and 3 December 1943. Trieste's City Hall, in the Piazza Unita d'Italia moved by the A.M.G. The matter was never proven, however, and for about two weeks I sweated on being kept back in Italy as a potential court-martial witness. On April 28, Vietinghoff sent emissaries to the Allied Army headquarters. to the city too. I had been in the army for four and a half years, and as dad, G-d rest his soul, would have said, 'It's enough already'. Docs - Italy 1943 - 1945 - British Infantry Divisions There were a lot like him.''. ADDRESS [25][26] On April 27, the 1st Armored Division entered Milan which had been liberated by the partisans on April 25 and the IV Corps commander Willis D. Crittenberger entered the city on April 30. v3.0, Cabinet Defence Committee minutes and [papers, Chiefs of Staff Committee registered files, Defence and Overseas Policy Committees and Sub-committees minutes and papers, Mediterranean: central Mediterranean forces, Unit historical records including war diaries and records of operational activity, Caribbean: Headquarters British forces Caribbean, Cyprus: Sovereign base area administration, Cyprus, records created by units of the army itself, records created by politicians, top-ranking officers and other high-level personnel, name of operation or campaign (for example, Operation Corporate), name of a conflict (for example, Suez crisis or Korean War) keyword searches like this work best if you put them in inverted commas, name of army unit. Ron, Hi Ron. Army Air Corps' operations record books and war diaries, 1957-1969, are in WO 295. While we were stationed here I got my first leave home back to England, briefly touched on in my story My Welcome Home. I remember, one day a group of American I was a young soldier with the R.A.first we were at La Farra then moved to the Morgan Line,from there for the Victory Parade. It might occur to some folk that the addendum above is un-necessary but it must be a sign of my years that I have felt it was proper to put the record right. 12,411 British, and Commonwealth, Free French and French colonial, Polish, and Brazilian troops, Italian Service Unit members, and Jewish Brigade volunteers from Palestine (who served under British command) killed 54,700 Italian partisans killed (44,720 Italian partisans in combat, 9,980 in Axis reprisals) ostensibly to revisit their families, but always raising the possibility An amphibious operation across the lake and parachute drop would bring pressure to bear on the flank and help to break the Argenta position. In the first place I was responsible for seeing that all the stores necessary to run a squadron of Sherman tanks were kept up to date and I was the liaison between the mechanics and the Base Store Depots. Trieste in May 1945 was a chaotic city filled with cornered German, Croatian and Italian soldiers who continued to fight despite Italy's capitulation in 1943. When he finally made it back to civilian life he achieved very high ranking both for MGM and later for Fox, and we were to stay firm friends right up to his untimely death in 1993. Michael's email to you said it all. The barracks we took over were in a terrible state, particularly noticeable after having lived at Opicina for so long, and it says much for the morale of the squadron that we were able to transform it into something that was at least bearable. camp being scarcely a mile from the Communist Yugoslav border. From 1950 onwards, unit historical records and reports are in WO 305. For my own peace of mind I asked him to tell me, in all confidence, how hed organised this massive theft, but he merely laughed and said, 'It wasnt me mate !'. The German Army surrendered to New Zealand army on May 2. International pressure made the Yugoslavs leave the city on June 12. 1946-1950. It remained in the U.K. re-equipping and refitting until leaving for North Africa on 6 January 1943. Click on the following series references to search for records within each respective series using keywords and dates. Instead of paying cash for these blessings we would each sell a tin of 50 cigarettes to the waiter and the cash received was more than sufficient to pay for the whole evening's entertainment, including the earlier visit to the YM!