{"id":16307,"date":"2025-11-23T20:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=16307"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:22:28","slug":"38-irish-brigade-in-italy-february-1945","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-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"38 (Irish) Brigade in Italy \u2013 February 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February was a quiet month for all three battalions of the Irish Brigade. Both the Faughs and the Skins had been withdrawn from their winter front line positions near San Clemente at the end of January with the Irish Rifles being eventually relieved on 4th February. After a few days at rest north of Florence, the whole brigade travelled to Forli where, by the end of the month, they had started their preparations for future offensive operations, which were being planned for the drier spring time period.<\/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-1945\/\">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>4th February:&nbsp;<\/strong>2 LIR are withdrawn from the front line to join the rest of the brigade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10th\/11th February:<\/strong>&nbsp;All three battalions of the brigade move to Forli.<\/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 1945 Roll of Honour:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-war-dead\/casualty\/2098053\/warren,-thomas-william\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>1st February 1945 \u2013 Rifleman Thomas Warren, London Irish Rifles.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-war-dead\/casualty\/4031246\/baxter,-alexander\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>3rd February 1945 \u2013 Private Alexander Baxter, London Irish Rifles, attached from ACC.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-war-dead\/casualty\/2614056\/fitzpatrick,-john\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>17th February 1945 \u2013 Fusilier John Fitzpatrick, Royal Inniskilling 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>February was a quiet month for all three battalions of the Irish Brigade. Both the Faughs and the Skins had been withdrawn from their winter front line positions near San Clemente at the end of January with the Irish Rifles being eventually relieved on 4th February. After a few days at rest north of Florence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":16097,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16307","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=16307"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23066,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16307\/revisions\/23066"}],"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=16307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}