Army Day parade in Trieste Italy (1949) - YouTube Sabba (my grandmother, mother, sister and myself) from Banatsko Novo Selo in 1950. This was a system whereby, if one had served three years and nine months abroad, you qualified for home posting. But attempts to investigate have gone nowhere. I could either go on a skiing holiday at Cortina, or take a course as a technical storeman. It remained in the U.K. re-equipping and refitting until leaving for North Africa on 6 January 1943. moved to another camp, some seven kilometers away called "Opicina," high up on a high overlooking Trieste. 1946-1950. I arrived just in time for the worst winter in some people's living memory and spent a large amount of time digging trains out of snowdrifts. ''As soon as one of them was questioned, four or five women rushed up to them and accused them of having murdered or tortured one of their relatives, or of having burned down their homes. Click on the following series references to search for records within each respective series using keywords and dates. The Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943-45: A Timeline, Part Three In March 1943, it was deployed to Tunisia and then used to secure the Island of Pantelleria. eastern Friuli and Istria. The bodies are those of Italians and Yugoslavs who opposed the Yugoslav Communist takeover of the city in May 1945, along with scores of captured Germans. It must have been on the second occasion when I saw the film in the company of my fellow wireless op, Peter. American and British forces immediately began to withdraw from Zone A and on 26 October 1954 the last TRUST commander, Major General John A. Dabney handed over control of Zone A to the Italian 82nd Infantry Regiment "Torino" which was transferred from its base in Forl to Trieste and formed the core of the provisional Grouping "T". A Capital of Science. public. In the meantime, the 24th Guards Brigade, part of the 56th (London) Infantry Division, had launched an amphibious flanking attack from the water to the right of the Argenta Gap. It left Italy on 18 July 1944 to transfer to Egypt for a period of rest and refitting. The division remained in Italy, until it was disbanded in 1947. Catalogue search results provide short descriptions of our records and a document reference for each one you will need the document reference to see the record itself. Sun, Jul 19, 2020 The lower the group number the quicker you got out. It was a lovely day and all was going fine until it was pointed out to us that the degaussing equipment aboard (which neutralised the magnet mines in the harbour) had developed a fault. A Roman Catholic priest, Don Sceck, told the investigators that a group of 150 fascists were swiftly sentenced and then mowed down by Partisan troops with machine guns on May 2, 1945, in Basovizza, a small Slovene-speaking village just outside Trieste.
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