NEW INFORMATION RECEIVED SINCE BOOK PUBLISHED
We Will Remember Them!
Book Page 60
1 York & Lancs. War Diary
19 Jan 44 – 0615
Move completed just as it was getting light. 4 killed, 6 wounded by mines in orchards. Captain Hewitt (Officer Commanding ‘C’ Company) and Captain Ramsay (Second in Command ‘B’ Company) wounded from shelling of road during move of Battalion.
The four men killed were:
Pte. J.W. Barlow 1 York & Lancs. Killed in Orchard minefield.
Sgt. J. Glover 1
York & Lancs. Killed in
Orchard minefield.
L/Cpl. C.E. Nugent 1 York
& Lancs. Killed in
Orchard minefield.
Pte. G.W.Thompson 1 York &
Lancs. Killed in Orchard minefield.
Book Page 80
Sergeant Fielding, ‘D’ Company, 1 York & Lancs. Missing Person’s Report
20 Jan 44
Eventually we consolidated on hill Point 172 and being then the Acting Sergeant Major of the Company I called for Platoon casualty slips and detailed Sergeant Waddington, 18 Platoon “D” Company to gather in the dead bodies. We had 12 dead, and 33 wounded out of this action.
The 12 Dead Soldiers were:
Pte. S.A. Holland 1 York
& Lancs. Killed 600 Yards N.E.
Minturno
Killed 19 Jan 44, Taken to Point 172, 20 Jan 44.
L/Cpl H. Evan 1 York &
Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172.
Pte. C. France 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172
Pte. R. Gunn 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172
Capt. B. Lang 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172
Pte. J. Lowery 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172
Pte. J.A. Lowery 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack
Point 172
Cpl. M. Norris 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172
Cpl. W. Scarfe 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172
Pte. W.H.Smith 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172
L/Cpl. J. Stott 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172
L/Cpl. J.Wilson 1 York & Lancs. Killed Attack Point 172
L/Cpl Jack Stott 1 York &
Lancs. died 20 Jan 44 (Photo David Rigby)
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