860 Alfred Hall

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7046077

Date: 08.10.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

861 John Cairns

Rank: Lance Corporal      Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14416962

Date: 08.10.1944   Age: 18   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

862 Spencer Jones

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6981965

Date: 09.10.1944   Age: 31   Place of burial:  Cassino Memorial

863 Edward Crowley

Rank: Company Sergeant Major     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers    Service number: 5723977

Date: 19.10.1944   Age: 35   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

CSM Crowley of B Company was killed during the Faughs’ night attack on Monte Spaduro. A regular, he had served through all the 1st Battalion’s campaigns in Belgium and France, Tunisia, Sicily and Italy.

864 Robert Hodson

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14596331

Date: 19.10.1944   Age: 36   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

865 Victor Turner

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14203845

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Bologna

866 Henry McCabe

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6983712

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 27   Place of burial:  Cassino Memorial

867 Richard Evans

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 5052885

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 28   Place of burial:  Cassino Memorial

868 Charles Johnston

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7023038

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Cassino Memorial

869 John Muldoon

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7046696

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 31   Place of burial:  Cassino Memorial

870 Ernest Winder

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers    Service number: 5682839

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Cassino Memorial

871 Frederick Murphy

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 7022324

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

872 William Fisher

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 5834087

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 27   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

873 Frank Batty

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7046190

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 36   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Batty was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

874 George Webber

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 13030073

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 27   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Webber was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

875 Harold Jones

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7047788

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Jones was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

876 Walter Holmes

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14379106

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 34   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Holmes was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

877 George White

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 1813331

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier White was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

878 Francis Haveron

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14440500

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Haveron was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

879 Alexander Smith

Rank: Corporal      Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 6981901

Date: 20.10.1944   Age:   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Cpl Smith was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

880 William Smith

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14425414

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 19   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Smith was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

881 Leonard Baird

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14381399

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Baird was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

882 William Royle

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14227778

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 32   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

A bren-gunner in A Company, Fusilier Royle was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro. Colin Gunner in his book ‘Front of the Line’ described him as “small and bespectacled” and a Geordie.  

883 Albert McCulloch

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 11269356

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier McCulloch was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

884 Harry Elliott

Rank: Sergeant      Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7046131

Date: 20.10.1944    Age:   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Sgt Elliott was killed with Major Crehan in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro. He was found later with nine others of A Company – fighting to the last.

885 Maurice Crehan

Rank: Major     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps    Service number: Cdn/121

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 35   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Major Crehan was transferred from The Irish Fusiliers of Canada to command A Company of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in the summer of 1944. He was killed in a German counterattack during the Irish Brigade’s first attack on Monte Spaduro.

886 George Burchett

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 5953364

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 28   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Burchett was killed in the initial attack on Monte Spaduro. The stretcher bearer in B Company of the Faughs later wrote: “We had a very rough time, my mate Fusilier Burchett while carrying a wounded comrade was hit by shellfire only to die in a few minutes…” (Fling Our Banner to the Wind, Page 207).

887 Patrick Gallagher

Rank: Corporal      Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7022827

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 37   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Cpl Gallagher was killed in the initial Faughs’ night attack on Mt Spaduro. He was member of D Company and a veteran of all the Faughs’ campaigns.

888 John Manning

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 6469376

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 24   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Manning was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

889 William Murphy

Rank: Corporal      Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7047274

Date: 20.10.1944   Age: 27   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Cpl Murphy was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro. He was a veteran of all the Faughs’ Second World War campaigns, and was a member of D Company.

890 Alan Jenkins

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14205074

Date: 20.10.1944    Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Fusilier Jenkins was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.

891 Frank Janes

Rank: Lance Sergeant      Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 14205733

Date: 21.10.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Lance Sergeant Janes was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.

892 Stephen Thompson

Rank: 2nd Lieutenant    Unit: London Irish Rifles, attached from The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)   Service number: 334481

Date: 21.10.44   Age: 29   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Lt Thompson was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.

893 Bernard Gage

Rank: Corporal      Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 6460643

Date: 21.10.1944     Age:   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Cpl Gage was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.

894 Thomas Galligan

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 992905

Date: 21.10.1944   Age: 31   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Rifleman Galligan was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.

895 Christopher Michael Cramb

Rank: Lieutenant    Unit: London Irish Rifles, seconded from South African Armoured Corps    Service number: 250904V

Date: 21.10.1944   Age: 27   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Lieutenant Cramb, a South African volunteer and university graduate, was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944. He was standing by Lieutenant Nicholas Mosley when he called out: “God have mercy on my soul,” and then fell and died (Time at War, Nicholas Mosley). He was the son of Percival and Olga Cramb of Pretoria.

896 James Bryning

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 334482

Date: 21.10.1944   Age: 27   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Rifleman Bryning was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.

897 James Blair

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 7019574

Date: 21.10.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Rifleman Blair was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.

898 William Murphy

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 14437714

Date: 21.10.1944   Age: 20   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Rifleman Murphy was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.

899 Aubrey Eaton

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 14334661

Date: 21.10.1944   Age: 20   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Rifleman Eaton was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.

900 Thomas Borrett

Rank: Lance Corporal      Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7022662

Date: 21.10.1944   Age: 23   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

L/Cpl Borrett was killed in the attack on Mt Spaduro. After being wounded, he crawled two miles to return, but died a few hours later, according to Fling Our Banner to the Wind (page 208).

901 William Collins

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 6482037

Date: 22.10.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Rifleman Collins was killed in the attacks on Hill 387/Casa Spalara/Casa Spinello.

902 Patrick Long

Rank: Corporal      Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 7018766

Date: 23.10.1944   Age: 34   Place of burial:  Faenza

903 Frank Hughes

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6981167

Date: 23.10.1944   Age: 26   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

904 Richard Birkett

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 5672564

Date: 23.10.1944   Age: 24   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

905 Albert Ward

Rank: Lance Sergeant      Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 3782728

Date: 23.10.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

906 Frederick Pritchard

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 14639387

Date: 23.10.1944   Age: 20   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

907 John Bruckmann

Rank: Lieutenant    Unit: London Irish Rifles, seconded from South African Armoured Corps    Service number: 20288V

Date: 23.10.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

A South African and an officer in E Company, Lieutenant Bruckmann was killed in a minefield with his company commander Ronald Boyd (see below) while advancing to Casa Spinello which had been taken the previous day by an E Company platoon the previouos day.

908 Ronald Boyd MC

Rank: Major      Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 62663

Date: 23.10.1944     Age:   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Major Boyd joined the London Irish Rifles from the Royal Ulster Rifles following the Battle of Cassino. He was appointed commander of E Company to replace Mervyn Davies, who had been wounded in the left arm and in the leg in the successful attack on Casa Spinello the previous day.

909 George Riley

Rank: Corporal      Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6981644

Date: 24.10.1944   Age: 28   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

910 Albert Kinsman

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 6983043

Date: 24.10.1944   Age: 32   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

911 William Farthing

Rank: Sergeant          Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 7020308

Date: 25.10.1944     Age:     Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

E Company Sergeant Farthing died of his wounds after an attack on Spinello during the Battle for Monte Spadura.

912 Dennis Connelly

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 6980139

Date: 30.10.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

913 William Grey-Allen

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 3771910

Date: 03.11.1944   Age: 20   Place of burial:  Florence

914 Steve Spice

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 14512215

Date: 04.11.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

915 Henry Sye

Rank: Lance Sergeant     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 7020431

Date: 07.11.1944   Age: 23   Place of burial:  Rome

G Company Lance Sergeant Sye died of wounds suffered during the attack on Spinello during the Battle for Monte Spadura. He had been lying wounded for 36 hours but had refused the aid of stretcher bearers.

916 Robert Warden

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 7046535

Date: 12.11.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Arezzo

To read Rifleman Warden’s story, please click here. 

917 Victor De Negri

Rank: Lance Sergeant      Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 6985648

Date: 16.11.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Lance Sergeant De Negri was on observation duty in the roof of a farm house on Monte Spaduro when his position was hit by German mortars. He was killed instantly. Details of this can be found in Colin Gunner’s Front of the Line. De Negri was the son of Victor and Lillian De Negri of Walthamstow Essex.

917a George Eastwood

Rank: Corporal     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.   Service number: 7044849

Date: 22.11.1944   Age: 29   Place of burial:  Moro River

918 Robert Williams

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 1792006

Date: 23.11.1944    Age:    Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

919 Joseph Farrell

Rank: Lance Corporal      Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 14625235

Date: 24.11.1944    Age:   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

920 John Blackmore

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 4202410

Date: 28.11.1944   Age: 31   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

921 Douglas Smith

Rank: Sergeant      Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 3773902

Date: 29.11.1944   Age: 26   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

922 Frank Howell

Rank: Sergeant      Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7044121

Date: 29.11.1944   Age: 28   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

923 Walter Cartledge

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6981583

Date: 01.12.1944   Age: 27   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

924 Harold White

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 5674611

Date: 01.12.1944   Age: 25   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

925 Frederick Rudd

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 6982654

Date: 01.12.1944   Age: 29   Place of burial: Santerno Valley

926 James Plunkett

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 14525206

Date: 04.12.1944   Age: 21   Place of burial:  Bologna

927 Patrick Joseph Brady

Rank : Lieutenant     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 289889

Date: 04.12.1944    Age:   Place of burial:  Cassino Memorial

Lieutenant Brady was the son of Terence and Eva Brady of Holloway, London. He was attached to the 1^stBattalion of the Royal Irish Rifles in the Tunisian battles in 1943 and fell into a slit trench during darkness on the night of 20 January. He broke his leg. Brady was promoted to the temporary rank of assistant captain on 19 January 1943.

928 Brendan Hickey

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6984998

Date: 04.12.1944   Age: 23   Place of burial:  Cassino Memorial

929 William Hilliam

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6986023

Date: 05.12.1944   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

930 Geert Coetzee

Rank: Captain    Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, seconded from South African Armoured Corps    Service number: 250903V

Date: 07.12.1944   Age: 34   Place of burial:  Argenta Gap

931 Frederick McLernon

Rank: Lance Corporal      Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 14617699

Date: 12.12.1944   Age: 32   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

932 Edward Niblock

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 7043745

Date: 19.12.1944   Age: 30   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

933 John Dickson

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 1297083

Date: 19.12.1944    Age:   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

934 Albert Parish

Rank: Lieutenant    Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from Gloucestershire Regiment   Service number: 292941

Date: 19.12.1944   Age: 27   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

Lieutenant Albert Parish was accompanying commander of the Faughs John Coldwell-Horsfall after a night raid on 19 December 1944 when a mortar bomb exploded close by. Parish was killed, and Coldwell-Horsfall suffered serious leg injuries. When he recovered, he was posted to the staff of Army HQ. Coldwell-Horsfall returned to the Irish Brigade as commander of the 2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles when it took up occupation duties in southern Austria after the end of the war.

935 Albert Sutcliffe

Rank: Sergeant      Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6981504

Date: 23.12.1944    Age:   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

936 Norman Russ

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6983099

Date: 23.12.1944    Age:   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

937 Thomas Conley

Rank: Lance Corporal      Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6985162

Date: 23.12.1944   Age: 20   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

938 William Bussey

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 14570754

Date: 27.12.1944   Age: 20   Place of burial:  Arezzo

939 Timothy O’Mara

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 6411750

Date: 06.01.1945   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Argenta Gap

940 Henry Jordan

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 14310243

Date: 06.01.1945   Age: 20   Place of burial:  Argenta Gap

941 Joseph Foley

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 3909939

Date: 06.01.1945   Age: 26   Place of burial:  Argenta Gap

942 Michael Foley

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 7010933

Date: 11.01.1945   Age: 48   Place of burial:  Rome

943 Leslie Caves

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers   Service number: 13030544

Date: 21.01.1945   Age: 28   Place of burial:  Cassino Memorial

944 Thomas Kidd

Rank: Lance Sergeant    Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers    Service number: 7046470

Date: 26.01.1945        Age:   Place of burial:  Santerno Valley

945 Thomas Warren

Rank: Rifleman     Unit: London Irish Rifles   Service number: 7022597

Date: 01.02.1945   Age: 22   Place of burial:  Arezzo

946 Alexander Baxter

Rank: Private      Unit: London Irish Rifles, attached from ACC    Service number: 70145404

Date: 03.02.1945   Age: 37   Place of burial:  Haldenleeben, Germany

947 John Fitzpatrick

Rank: Fusilier     Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers   Service number: 6976463

Date: 17.02.1945   Age: 37   Place of burial:  Florence

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