Posts Tagged ‘Irish Brigade’
Conference 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 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 MoreRoyal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the Italian campaign conference to be held in November
A half-day conference about the role of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the Italian Campaign is to be held at the Inniskillings Museum in Enniskillen on Saturday 11 November. The event will also review the role of 38 (Irish) Brigade in the campaign. Speakers are: Chairman of the Inniskillings Museum Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Mark Scott…
Read MoreMinneapolis family heads to Sicily for WWII commemoration
Marian Johnson (right) with daughter Hayley and grandson Owen Three generations of an Edina family are heading to Sicily next month to join the commemoration of Allied landings on the island, which took place at a turning point in the Second World War, 80 years ago. Mother of five, Marian Johnson, will be joined on…
Read MoreRemembering the dead of the Sicily campaign
The CWGC Catania War Cemetery, the largest in Sicily, has 2,135 graves The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemeteries in Catania and Syracuse contain the remains of 2,410 men who lost their lives between the start of the Sicilian campaign on the night of 9 July and the end of August 1943. The overwhelming majority…
Read MoreThe December 1941 Arcadia conference and the Irish Brigade
On 13 December 1941, a Royal Navy convoy comprising the battleship HMS Duke of York and three destroyers set sail for America from the River Clyde. The Duke of York was taking UK prime minister Winston Churchill on a tryst with destiny in Washington and a conference with US president Roosevelt. America had been Britain’s…
Read MoreMaletto memorial for the men who died in the Irish Brigade’s final Sicily battle
A memorial to men of the Irish Brigade who lost their lives in and around Maletto in north-east Sicily in August 1943 in the brigade’s final battle on the island was formally unveiled on 18 September 2022. Those listed on the memorial are 18 members of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers (Faughs)…
Read MoreFull house in Omagh for All My Brothers film
A full house and an appreciative audience saw the fourth episode of All My Brothers, the Story of the Irish Brigade in the Second World War at the Strule Arts Theatre in Omagh on 14 January. The film covered the role of the Irish Brigade in the Adriatic Campaign in October-December 1943 and in front-line…
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…
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