Posts by Edmund O'Sullivan
Thanksgiving service to be held to mark 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Rome
Cathedral Church of St Michael & St George Cardinal Nichols has authorised a thanksgiving service to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Rome to be held at the Military Cathedral Church of St Michael & St George in Aldershot at 11.30 on Saturday 15 June. The Cathedral Church of St Michael and St George serves…
Read MoreCharlie Lawson shares the story of his lost uncle with the We Have Ways podcast
UK actor Charlie Lawson shared the story of his uncle Royal Irish Fusiliers lieutenant John Glennie with James Holland and Al Murray in the popular weekly We Have Ways of Making You Talk Second World War podcast. John Glennie was killed in the Irish Brigade’s failed attack against German lines on the river Trigno north…
Read MoreRemembering great Italian escape of 1943-44
Tens of thousands of Allied prisoners of war fled from camps in Italy following the announcement of the armistice that took Rome out of the war in September 1943. Their story and the role played in it by Italians who provided them with food and shelter is being preserved in the work of the Monte…
Read MoreRole of London Irish Rifles and Irish Guards at Anzio investigated in Youtube show
The role of 1 Battalion of the London Irish Rifles and 1 Battalion, the Irish Guards in the Anzio bridgehead in January and February 1944 was discussed in the WW2TV Youtube show this week. Edmund and Richard O’Sullivan, founders of The Irish Brigade Website, presented the story of both battalions at a critical moment following…
Read MoreLiberation of Rome conference to highlight the Italian Campaign
Bookings are now open for The Liberation of Rome Conference in Anzio on 31 May-1 June 2024. The event will examine the events leading to the end of the occupation of Rome on 4 June 1944 and their contemporary resonance. The conference is supported by local, regional and central government in Italy and will hear…
Read MoreConference hears Irish Brigade Italy campaign stories
Enniskillen Castle Stories of members of the Irish Brigade in the Italian campaign were told at the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (The Skins) in the Italian campaign conference in Enniskillen on Saturday 11 November. The event was opened by Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Mark Scott chairman of the Inniskillings Museum which hosted the conference. His father Robert…
Read MoreCharlie Lawson tells heartbreaking story of the uncle he never knew
Actor Charlie Lawson (far left) famous for playing the role of Jim McDonald in the TV soap Coronation Street spoke this week about his uncle John Glennie, a lieutenant in the Royal Irish Fusiliers who was killed in the Italian campaign in 1943. Born in Enniskillen in 1923, John Glennie attended the town’s Portora…
Read MoreFusilier Anthony Addis
We received details of the life and service career of Fusilier Anthony Addis, from William Best, the husband of Anthony’s niece. Fusilier Addis served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Italy and died in hospital of wounds suffered at the River Trigno at the end of October 1943. He would be re-interred a year later…
Read MoreTermoli plans monument, museum and documentary to commemorate the landings of 1943
Plans are being developed for a new memorial and a larger Second World War Museum in Termoli and a documentary film to commemorate the landings and battle there on 3-6 October 1943. The town and the surrounding area were the scene of the largest tank battle in the Italian campaign in the Second World War…
Read MoreIrish Brigade at the Battle of Termoli in October 1943
The latest edition of This Week in the Italian Campaign tells the story of the Battle of Termoli on 3-6 October and the role of 38 (Irish) Brigade in repelling 16 Panzer Division. The battle began with special forces landings on the night of 3 October. On 5 October, 16 Panzer came close to taking…
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