Forward slopes of the hill leading down to the road

Book Battle For Monte Natale page 89

 When the barrage re-started, ‘B’ and ‘C’ Companies, the latter now under Captain Ivor J. Wedgbury, began their advance against Monte Natale which lay beyond the Minturno – Santa Maria Infante road. After covering about 400 yards, the Companies reached the forward slopes of the hill leading down to the road. At once they came under heavy and accurate fire from enemy tanks in the area of the Cemetery and from a group of houses some 800 yards further North. As a result, the attack was temporarily brought to a halt while the exact positions of the enemy tanks were ascertained.

                               Cemetery as seen from the forward slopes. (Photo John Strafford)