NEW INFORMATION RECEIVED SINCE
BOOK PUBLISHED.
Book: Battle For Monte Natale
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NEW INFORMATION
17 Infantry Brigade HQ War
Diary
Monte Argento shelled by Navy.
Position has been twice attacked by 2 Royal Scots Fusiliers.; is heavily mined
and booby trapped.
T. B. Davis The Surrey
& Sussex Yeomanry (98 Field Regiment) 1980
“Monte Argento was supported
by a fire- plan from the Regiment. Not
until midday was the little hill finally taken. The Royal Scots Fusiliers had suffered
nearly two hundred casualties in a total advance of two miles and the Seaforth
Highlanders had lost two hundred and forty.
To the right of 17 Brigade the picture was less gloomy, for 13 Brigade
had gained all its objectives, and Major Peile and Capt Stride were across the
river with 6 Northants. The Minturno
Ridge was still in enemy hands but the Royal Pioneer Corps were maintaining a
constant smokescreen along the line of the river and under cover of this were
swiftly constructing a tank ferry.”
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