Original Italian Campaign Graves.

Spidge -
no chance as Coriano Ridge is where my Troop Commander and Tank Commander are buried and the main cemetery that I have ever visited as too many of my friends are

there also- as well as Ancona- Gradara - Cassino - Cesena…. main head scratcher at Coriano Ridge is the ONE Russian- very odd as well as Gerry's Co. the 3rd Earl and

his troop commander Major McClean - there is a large amount of Armoured Corps at Coriano as we all took one hell of a beating all along that ridge from the 88mm's...

Cheers

 

Hi Tom,

They must have been reinterred at another cemetery as they are not listed there now.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Geoff

Wouldn't be the first record to be inaccurate BUT SOME Aussies were in the Desert Air Force operating as a "Cab Rank" over the

Gothic Line as they shot us up now and again..and were staffed by Aussies - Sth Africans - Kenyans - Canadians - Kiwi's - Polish even
British…

Cheers

 

There are a number of South African Air Force men buried at Coriano Ridge CWGC.

This is a Movietone clip from 1956 of Alex and the unveiling of the memorial walls at Cassino (thanks to Kay for giving me the link)...I must admit I wiped a tear away when I watched it...

http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/CASSINO-REMEMBRANCE/3e1154d39bf34149addc40972540db08?query=cassino&current=20&orderBy=Relevance&hits=84&referrer=search&search=%2Fsearch%3Fstartd%3D%26endd%3D%26allFilters%3D%26query%3Dcassino%26advsearchStartDateFilter%3D%26advsearchEndDateFilter%3D%26searchFilterHdSDFormat%3DAll%26searchFilterDigitized%3DAll%26searchFiltercolorFormat%3DAll%26searchFilteraspectratioFormat%3DAll&allFilters&productType=IncludedProducts&page=1

You'll note the name of Trooper Dowling whose name is clearly shown - not as clear now, sadly...

DOWLING, WILLIAM CHARLES
Rank: Trooper
Service No: 7958337
Date of Death: 23/01/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps 16th/5th Lancers
Panel Reference Panel 1. Memorial CASSINO MEMORIAL

 

Richard /0wen

Tpr Dowling of the 16/5th Lancers must have been close to the first of the regiment to be killed on 23rd Jan '44
as they had just landed a few days beforehand- in actual fact Alex had called forward the Guards bde- after the Guard's losses at
Mignano- from 6th Armoured in North Africa and 16/5th thought they might just as well go also as it was bound to come..they soon
found themselves in the thick of it at the Cassino Station with the Kiwi Maoris' 28th Battalion - where they both took a beating and retired - the rest of 6th AD were called forward in the February but were not committed until Operation Diadem in May…

Cheers

 

Okay to put this here?


Censored photo but the first grave appears to be;-


DICKINSON, TOM MITCHELL
Rank:FusilierService No:14209647Date of Death:05/10/1943Age:25Regiment/Service:Lancashire Fusiliers 2nd Bn. Grave ReferenceII. A. 9.CemeterySANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Mrs. S. E. Dickinson, of Harrington, Cumberland.

Second
NIGHTINGALE, JOSEPH
Rank:MarineService No:PO/X 105298Date of Death:03/10/1943Age:22Regiment/Service:Royal Marines No. 40 R.M. Commando. Grave ReferenceX. E. 2.CemeterySANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Joseph and Mary Nightingale, of Preston, Lancashire.



Kyle

 

Termoli 11/11/1943 released to the American Press got the copy from Ebay US about a month ago?

Kyle

 

Afraid its not a very good scan, but from the book 'No Need to Worry' by Peter Moore is a photo of Colin Stockdale's original grave.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2613019/STOCKDALE,%20COLIN%20HERBERT
STOCKDALE, COLIN HERBERT
Rank: Captain
Service No: 126963
Date of Death: 08/02/1944
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: South Lancashire Regiment
Grave Reference: XVIII. H. 20.
Cemetery: CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Ernest Malcolm Stockdale, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., and Catherine Mary Stockdale, of Liverpool.

Although the CWGC details list his Regiment as the South Lancs, he spent a large part of WW2 with the 2/5th Leicestershire Regt, and was with them when he was killed.

The book conveys that he had gone out to speak to what he thought was a returning British patrol, which turned out to be a German patrol who gunned him down. Also that he was buried the next day at the place he was killed by his batman Les Pugh.

Obvious from the CWGC details he was later re-buried/concentrated at Cassino War Cemetery