3rd Bn Coldstream Guards - Late September 1943

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  1. matteo00

    matteo00 Active Member

    sorry if i ask this, but somebody can writes me the words on the war diariies, because some things are confused. Salerno1943 members are researching Grenadier Guards too.
    Le posate del soldato Sturdy
     
  2. Meldram

    Meldram Member

    Hello Matteo

    Are you attending the re-dedication service for Guardsmen Rose and Goulden on Thursday?

    CWGC
    Thursday 23 November 2017

    A rededication service will be held for Guardsmen Joseph Goulden and Raymond Frederick Rose, both of the Coldstream Guards, at 11am in CWGC Salerno War Cemetery, Italy.

    They were originally buried as unknown soldiers of the Coldstream Guards at a burial service in March this year along with Lance Corporal Ronald George Blackham. They have now been identified through DNA analysis. The families of both soldiers will be attending and Regimental support will be provided by the Coldstream Guards.

    The service has been organised by the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre and will be attended by senior staff of the British Defence Section, CWGC Regimental representatives and local dignitaries. The CWGC will be providing the headstones and maintaining the graves in perpetuity.
     
  3. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    3rd battalion Coldstream Guards war diary for September 1943.
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  4. matteo00

    matteo00 Active Member

    Meldram, well, i don't know if i will be there. I hope to take photos and share they in this forum but I am too busy. I will ask to my friends of Salerno1943
     
  5. matteo00

    matteo00 Active Member

    On H270 probably there are a number unknown of Germans and British... i hear that it's a area with not good people (one tried to find a soldier and found a 1960s iron object). Perhaps people who tries to have their name on the newspaper or grave robbers. I will support SAF (Salerno Air Finders) work because they have passion and they never asked money when they found soldiers. We will have a name and a proper burial.

    Il braccialetto del Capitano Brown

    I think that it is a special and unic association, because i never heard WW2 association that gave things and bodies to the families and especially in a battlefield not much famous. I know that the only problem of SAF members is collaborating with German authorities, because after WW2 Germany tries to forgot this Era (and all people who lost their lives) and Volksbund and other organisations are working on the former Eastern front against grave robbers. I think that support Germans is a good thing, because neither Germans nor Allies deserve this treatment. At Salerno some British were found by her: Lucia Apicella - Wikipedia
     
  6. matteo00

    matteo00 Active Member

    well, friends, i am back from Salerno War Cemetery, I took a photo with a Coldstream soldier. I will share all on WW2 talk, only bad thing of the day that some italians throw away the brochures on Frederick Rose... with his face. It will be very nice at all. There were italian Guardia di Finanza, Carabinieri and Polizia di Stato policemen and journalists.

     
  7. Ian A Thompson

    Ian A Thompson New Member

    I have been searching for information about Joseph Golden and only recently found out about this...Joseph was my Great Uncle.His wife,Elizabeth, was my Grandmother's sister. I had heard the family stories of his demise, he had a twin brother,John, who was also in the Guards allegedly but I know nothing of him. I wish I knew more. It is a sad story.
     
  8. minden1759

    minden1759 Senior Member

    Ian.

    If you are interested, and if Covid allows, I will be guiding a group to Salerno on 23-26 Sep 21 to look at the battle. 3 COLDM GDS were part of the original landing force so Gdsm Goulden would have been involved in all their heavy fighting between landing on 9 Sep 43 and his death on 25 Sep 43. At the time of his death, 201 Guards Brigade to which 3 COLDM GDS belonged were part of an operation to push up and clear the San Severino Pass which was one of only two ways to get to Naples.

    Regards

    Frank
    www.cassinobattlefields.co.uk
     
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