Le 3 septembre 1943, les Alli\u00e9s envahissent le continent italien, \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 les Italiens r\u00e9int\u00e8grent la guerre du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des Alli\u00e9s. L’avanc\u00e9e des Alli\u00e9s est bloqu\u00e9e par la Ligne Gustave, fortifications construites par les Allemands. La ligne finit par tomber en mai 1944 et les Alli\u00e9s remontent l’Italie. Ce cimeti\u00e8re est celui des morts de la 78e Division, principalement Anglais, mais aussi Canadiens et Sud-Africains, morts qui ont eu lieu lors des premiers combats intenses au nord de Rome. Les 190 s\u00e9pultures datent de la p\u00e9riode du 14 juin au 4 juillet 1944. Elles sont toutes identifi\u00e9es sauf deux. Je pensais avoir vu ce cimeti\u00e8re, mais j’ai d\u00fb confondre avec celui plus grand de Bolsena, qui n’est pas tr\u00e8s loin. Toujours horriblement touchant \u00e0 visiter. Ces soldats \u00e9taient tellement jeunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“However, the men in his Platoon and one of the other officers in the Coy, who is still with us, have told me what happened, and the story, as sad as it is, is in every way worthy of your son and of the fine officer we knew him to be. He was wounded in the right arm while attacking a house, and his Platoon was around him. He was about to through a grenade as he was struck, and had already removed the pin. Then realising that he had not the strength to throw it far enough, he held it for as long as he could, while he shouted to his Platoon to get down under cover, after which he threw it as far as he could, but not, unfortunately, far enough to prevent it killing him. His sacrifice was not in vain, and his men’s lives were saved as he meant that they should be.” Letter sent by John Wilton to the father of Lt.\u00a0 Cornelius Joseph Horgan.\u00a01 Royal Irish Fusiliers and 6 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le 3 septembre 1943, les Alli\u00e9s envahissent le continent italien, \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 les Italiens r\u00e9int\u00e8grent la guerre du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des Alli\u00e9s. L’avanc\u00e9e des Alli\u00e9s est bloqu\u00e9e par la Ligne Gustave, fortifications construites par les Allemands. La ligne finit par tomber en mai 1944 et les Alli\u00e9s remontent l’Italie. Ce cimeti\u00e8re est celui des […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[56,65,173],"class_list":["post-10386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bits-bobs","tag-death","tag-sadness","tag-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220809_111934-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1152&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10388,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions\/10388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}