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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