BAXTER Herbert. Gunner 917032, 51st Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery died on the 22nd May 1944 aged 33 at Cassino, Italy. He the son of George Butcher and Elizabeth was the husband of Mary Ann of Birkenhead. He is commemorated on his wife's memorial in Landican Cemetery, Birkenhead, Cheshire...
Polish Cemetery seen from a top of Monte Cassino
The Polish cemetery at Monte Cassino contains graves of more than one thousand Poles who died while storming the abbey in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte Cassino.
The cemetery also contains the grave of General Anders, commander of...
In the shadow of Monte Cassino on January 21–22, 1944, the U.S. Army’s 36th “Texas” Division tried to cross Italy’s Rapido River. The rout of this former National Guard unit from Texas was one of the worst defeats Americans suffered on the battlefields of World War II, one that prompted veterans...
One of the 'heroes' of the Polish Second Corps was Wojtek, a brown bear adopted in Iran as their mascot; at Monte Cassino Wojtek actually helped in the fighting by carrying ammunition for the guns. He died, in Edinburgh Zoo in 1964, aged 22.
Polis Soldier from 12 "Podolskich" Uhlan
Regiment entered the monastery early on the 18th May 1944, where they proudly raised their flag over the ruins where so many of soldier Polish 2nd Corps had sacrificed their lives. Nearly 1000 Poles were killed and 3000 wounded in the assaults...
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