Maletto
Corporal Edward O’Reilly MM
We have received a note from Ben Guiden, the great nephew of Corporal Edward O’Reilly, who served with E Company 2 LIR in Tunisia and Italy and was killed near Cassino in the early afternoon of 16th May 1944, alongside his platoon commander on that day, Sergeant Edward Mayo MM. In his note to us,…
Read MoreEyewitness recalls Maletto battle
Vincenzo Gangi, who celebrates his 90th birthday in October, told the Irish Brigade website how he saw machine gunners positioned on a rooftop in his home town of Maletto shoot down an allied plane during the build-up to the Irish Brigade assault on the town in the early hours of 12th August 1943. Then a…
Read MoreCommemorations in Maletto
The Irish Brigade website were most honoured to be invited to attend a Service of Remembrance and Conference in Maletto, on the north western slopes of Mount Etna, that covered events in the town during the Sicily campaign of July and August 1943. After being attendant at a service at the town’s War Memorial, the…
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