IFOR CARADOC LEWIS

Born at Garnfawr, Nebo, Ifor was a private in the 2/4th Hampshire Regiment - XIIIBritish Corps - British Eighth Army - which landed on Sicily in July 1943 and on the Italian mainland in September of that year.

 

Advancing through Italy his regiment was in the fourth of the bitter battles for Cassino - about which a German soldier captured at Cassino said "I was at Stalingrad and I had never thought to endure worse"

The British XIIIth advanced North through Italy towards the Gothic Line where the Germans had strengthened defences.

On 17th September, 1944, The XIII Corps and the American 5th Army broke the Gothic Line in several places to advance towards the Po river.

Ivor was killed on 22nd November during the advance from Rimini to Forli - fighting in atrocious autumn weather and engaged in repeated crossings of heavily flooded rivers.

He is buried in Cesena War Cemetery in Northern Italy.

The war in Italy came to an end in the Spring of 1945.

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