NEW INFORMATION RECEIVED SINCE BOOK PUBLISHED.

 Book: Battle For Monte Natale Page 65 

1 Green Howards War Diary 19 Jan 44 – 1050 Leading elements of ‘C’ Company entering town [Minturno] followed shortly by ‘A’ Company. ‘B’ Company passed through to Point 141. Meet opposition, eventually getting one Platoon onto the feature. Remainder of Company held up by machine gun and mortar fire. Battalion HQ and ‘D’ Company to area 789960 [just North of Minturno] ‘A’ Company sent Platoon to assist Platoon of ‘D’ Company on Point 141 and get established.

"Mark Howard, historian researching the 98 Field Regiment Royal Artillery”

Lt. Col TB Davis Regimental History of the 98 Field Regiment Royal Artillery

19 Jan 44

“15 Brigade attacked the ridge, with Major Payne and the 471 Battery Observation Posts in support, and after a hard struggle the Green Howards fought their way into Minturno during the afternoon.”

 

19 Jan 44 A Sherman crossing the River Garigliano on a pontoon raft.

 19 Jan 44

A the same time as 1 KOYLI was taking Point 201 having advanced from Tufo:

Sherman III (M4A2) is hauled across the River Garigliano in Italy on a pontoon raft with a Bailey Bridge section - 19 January 1944 Tyler (Sgt) (Photo IWM NA 10957 WWP-PD)

6 sections of Bailey Bridge, 60 ft. Standard Bailey rafting technique.

19 Jan 44 Point 201 and Tufo

 

                                    Point 201 and Tufo from the plain. (Photo John Strafford)

19 Jan 44 5th Army Sleeping Soldiers

19 Jan 44

 Photos show Lieutenant Olaf Branns, of Hill House, Watlington, Oxon and Lance Corporal A. Durrent, of Bethnal Green, London with The Fifth Army at Lauro, snatching a few moments of sleep in a hay barn during a lull in the fighting in the Garigliano River Valley, Italy.

19 Jan 44 Royal Engineers

 19th January 1944

Royal Engineers in assault boats embark for the opposite bank to repair the last two sections of the pontoon bridge knocked out by enemy fire. (Photo Imperial War Museum).

19 January 1944 REME assemble motorcycles.

 

New motorcycles are assembled at a forward REME workshop by the 56 Infantry Troop Recovery Unit, REME, near the Garigliano River in Italy. Photo Gade (Lt)IWM TR 1525 WWP-PD

17-18 January 8 Royal Fusiliers

 On the night of 17-18 January by the Garigliano River, Fusilier J.W. Roberts, 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, wearing a Mae West life jacket which was issued to all troops before crossing the river, lights a cigarette.

 The Hill to Tufo. (Photo John Strafford

See 19 January 1944 -The Battle for Tufo in the right column.