The Irish Brigade web site is pleased to add the 1944 war diaries of the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers that provide a day by day narrative of the battalion's actions during that most difficult of years from patrolling in the high Appenines to the bitter fighting on the Gothic Line of Northern Italy.
You can click on the links below to read the diaries:
January 1944 Click here for a transcribed version.
February 1944 Click here for a transcribed version.
March 1944 Click here for a transcribed version.
April 1944 Click here for a transcribed version.