Scots Guards : Italy

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    ITALY : THE CAPTURE OF CASSINO
    © IWM NA 14984
    Object description
    Original wartime caption: Men of the Scots Guards searching for snipers among the ruins of Cassino. Castle Hill can be seen on the right.
    18/05/1944

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    ITALY : THE CAPTURE OF CASSINO
    © IWM NA 14988
    Object description
    Original wartime caption: Scots Guards Bren gunners in the ruins of Cassino.
    18/05/1944

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    ITALY : THE CAPTURE OF CASSINO
    © IWM NA 15013
    Object description
    Original wartime caption: Men of "S" Coy., Scots Guards on a mopping-up patrol through Cassino.
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    ITALY : THE CAPTURE OF CASSINO
    © IWM NA 15014
    Object description
    Original wartime caption: Men of the Scots Guards celebrate the fall of Cassino with a Highland Fling.
    “1st Guards Brigade, Cassino.
    Taken by Serjeant McConville."
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    FIFTH ARMY : VARIOUS
    © IWM NA 18694
    Object description
    Original wartime caption: A patrol of Scots Guards returns to platoon HQ in La Vergine. They had been out drawing enemy fire to locate his positions.

    "SECRET : S.A. (Division) (24 Guards Brigade)
    4 miles N.W. Pistoia
    Taken by Serjeant Radford.
    17/09/1944”


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    TRIESTE : VARIOUS
    © IWM NA 25116
    Object description
    Original wartime caption: The crew of the 'Cleveland' and men of the 1st Btn. Scots Guards, who form part of the Trieste garrison, talking together.
    “Taken by Serjeant Best.
    15/05/1945”

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    TRIESTE : VARIOUS
    © IWM NA 25117
    Object description
    Original wartime caption: The 1st Btn. SCots Guards observed Memorial Sunday with a Battalion Service, in the Sale Littoria Concert Hall, part of the Opera House in Trieste. During the service, the Commanding Officer read out the names of officers and men of the Battalion who had fallen in action from the time of the reforming of the Battalion after Anzio until the final battles at the River PO.
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    EIGHTH ARMY PERSONALITIES
    © IWM NA 25573
    Object description
    Original wartime caption: Two Scots Guardsmen study the photographs they had taken in Trieste.
    Sgt. E. Ions (left) of 3 Wigton Place, Philadelphia, Co.Durham, and
    Cpl. Gordon of 167 Sumner Road, Croydon, both of 1st Btn. Scots Guards.
    The sergeant is unmarried, but Cpl. Gordon is married to a girl in the WAAF.

    08/05/1945

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    FIELD MARSHAL ALEXANDER LEAVES ITALY
    © IWM NA 26367
    Object description
    Original wartime caption: Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander inspecting the 1st Scots Guards.
    30/09/1945
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