Visits to the Battlefields


Guides to some of the Irish Brigade battlefields in Tunisia and Italy during the Second World War.


Filming in Tunisia: March 2018.

From Stuka Ridge towards Two Tree Hill.

Filming in Sicily: June 2018.

View from Centuripe towards Mt Etna.

Filming in Italy: May 2019.

Panicale south of Lake Trasimene.

Filming north of Florence: July 2022.

The view towards Monte Spaduro.

Filming in northern Italy: July 2022.

The River Po east of Ferrara.

Tunisian Battlefields, Bou Arada/Stuka Ridge: January/February 1943.


On Grandstand Hill north of Bou Arada.

From Termoli to the Moro River: October 5th to December 5th 1943.

Northwards across the Sangro river.

Liri Valley: March 21st to May 31st 1944.

The view toward Monte Cassino and Pt 593 from Monte Castellone.

The Sanfatucchio Ridge and the Lake Trasimene area, 21-25 June 1944.

The view towards Lake Trasimene from Panicale.

The ‘O’ Group of the 2nd Battalion London Irish Rifles, near the Cassino to Pignatoro road, on the afternoon of 15th May 1944 as described to the artist David Rowlands by Lt-Col Horsfall. To obtain prints of this painting, visit the website of the artist:  www.davidrowlands.co.uk