{"id":16228,"date":"2025-11-23T19:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=16228"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:06:07","slug":"38-irish-brigade-in-italy-february-1944","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/second-world-war\/38-irish-brigade-1942-1947\/monthly-reviews\/month-by-month-review-july-1943-to-may-1945-italy-austria\/38-irish-brigade-in-italy-february-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"38 (Irish) Brigade in Italy \u2013 February 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By early February 1944, all three battalions of the Irish Brigade had been finally relieved from their defensive positions in the high Apennines and were able to withdraw for a rest period and undertake further training before being moved westwards, along with the rest of 78th Infantry Division, to join up with the New Zealand Corps to form part of 5th Army Reserve. They were advised that they would likely join in the next stage of the battle for Monte Cassino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the middle of February, Pat Scott is appointed as Brigadier replacing Nelson Russell, who had been Brigade Commander since July 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/second-world-war\/38-irish-brigade-1942-1947\/38-irish-brigade-war-diaries\/war-diaries-february-1944\/\">War Diaries<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Key Dates:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2nd\/3rd February:<\/strong>&nbsp;6 Innisks\/1 RIrF move to the Busso\/Campbasso area. 2 LIR were already based at Baranello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>14th February:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Irish Brigade moves to Alife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>18th February:<\/strong>&nbsp;78 Infantry Division joined 2 New Zealand Corps as part of 5th Army Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>19th February:<\/strong>&nbsp;Pat Scott takes over as Brigade Commander from Nelson Russell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>24th February:<\/strong>&nbsp;Lieut-Colonel HEN \u2018Bala\u2019 Bredin takes over as commander of 6 Innisks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>February 1944 Roll of Honour:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-war-dead\/casualty\/2240159\/todd,-percy-walter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>23rd February 1944 \u2013 Fusilier Percy Todd, Royal Irish Fusiliers.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By early February 1944, all three battalions of the Irish Brigade had been finally relieved from their defensive positions in the high Apennines and were able to withdraw for a rest period and undertake further training before being moved westwards, along with the rest of 78th Infantry Division, to join up with the New Zealand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":16097,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16228"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23052,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16228\/revisions\/23052"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}