{"id":17698,"date":"2025-12-04T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=17698"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:24:50","slug":"rsm-g-j-charnick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/second-world-war\/38-irish-brigade-1942-1947\/38-irish-brigade-photographic-memories\/rsm-george-charnicks-photographic-memories\/rsm-g-j-charnick\/","title":{"rendered":"RSM G J Charnick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/49.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:431px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">A photograph of E Company NCOs, probably taken in Italy. Sergeant Major George Charnick on the left and Sergeant Edward Mayo on the right. Mayo was killed during the 2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles\u2019 attack on Sinagoga on 16 May 1944. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/George%201.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:436px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Photograph taken in the winter of 1943\/44. George, wearing the symbols of his office on his sleeves, is now Sergeant Major of E Company.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/George%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:566px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles Regimental Sergeant Major George Charnick photographed in Austria after the end of the war.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/George%206.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:400px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Sergeant-Major George Charnick. This photograph was probably taken at the same time as the first in this sequence.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/George%207.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:365px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Sergeant George Charnick of the 2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles. This photograph was probably taken in the UK before Operation Torch in November 1942. George was then in the carrier platoon. You can see a bren gun mounted on a tripod to his left.<\/h5>\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>A photograph of E Company NCOs, probably taken in Italy. Sergeant Major George Charnick on the left and Sergeant Edward Mayo on the right. Mayo was killed during the 2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles\u2019 attack on Sinagoga on 16 May 1944. Photograph taken in the winter of 1943\/44. 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