On This
Day: 26 December 1943 - Italy
C. Whiting and E. Taylor, “Fighting Tykes”
Boxing Day 1943
1 Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Regiment
On Boxing Day some of the men were taken out of the line for
a few hours to watch the divisional concert party, “The Low Gang”, sitting
shivering in their overcoats in an unheated opera house at Luciano where the
back of the stage had been removed by a German shell to let in a freezing
draught. But it was a welcome relief
from the line, despite repeated German air attacks which had some of the
performers leaving the show to man their guns”.
Next On This day: New Years Eve, York & Lancs move to
Lanciano .
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