The Irish Brigade web site is pleased to add the 1944 war diaries of the 2nd Battalion, London Irish Rifles that provide a day by day narrative of the battalion's actions during that most difficult of years, which started in the high Appennines and ended near to the Gothic Line of Northern Italy.
You can click on the links below to read the diaries :
January 1944 - in the high Apennines. Click here for a transcribed version.
February 1944 - moving to the Cassino front. Click here for a transcribed version.
March 1944 - in reserve near Cassino.
April 1944 - Monte Castellone.
May 1944 - the assault on the Gustav Line at Sinagoga and the breakthrough into the Liri valley.
June 1944 - the advance north of Rome to Lake Trasimeno.
August 1944 - resting in Egypt.
September 1944 - back to Italy.
October 1944 - joining the 5th Army at Monte Spaduro.