The Irish Brigade web site is pleased to add the complete Nov 1942 to May 1945 war diaries of the 2nd Battalion, London Irish Rifles that provide a day by day narrative of the battalion's actions from their initial landings in Algeria to final victory at the River Po .
You can read the diaries by clicking on the links below :
Officers' Rolls: Nov 1942 to Dec 1943
Officers' Rolls: Jan 1944 to May 1945
Sources :
National Archives, Kew.
Dec 1942 to Jun 1943 - WO 175/515.
Jul 1943 to Dec 1943 - WO 169/10255.
Jan 1944 to Dec 1944 - WO 170/1433.
Jan 1945 to Dec 1945 - WO 170/5045.