{"id":17716,"date":"2025-12-04T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=17716"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:23:15","slug":"csm-george-charnick-groups","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\/csm-george-charnick-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"CSM George Charnick &#8211; Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/group1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/group2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;E Company, Italy, 1943.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Officer Commanding John Lofting (fourth from left of front row), 2-ic Pat Giles&nbsp;(fourth from right with&nbsp;CSM George Charnick (third from left); Sergeant Edward Mayo (second from left)&nbsp;and CQMS Edmund O\u2019Sullivan (third from right)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/Group3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;Officers, Warrant Officers and NCOs from E Company, December 1943.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">From left: CSM George Charnick (with pipe); Sgt Edward&nbsp;Mayo (with hands in pockets); Sgt Jock McNally; CQMS Edmund O\u2019Sullivan (eyes closed); Lt White; Capt Pat Giles&nbsp;(with pipe) and Capt Gerald Fitzgerald.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/group4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Members of E Company, probably photographed in Italy in the winter of 1943\/44. Sergeant-Major George Charnick with pipe is on the far left of the top row. E Company Colour Sergeant Edmund O\u2019Sullivan is third from the right in the front row.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/Group5.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/Group6.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\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>&nbsp;E Company, Italy, 1943. Officer Commanding John Lofting (fourth from left of front row), 2-ic Pat Giles&nbsp;(fourth from right with&nbsp;CSM George Charnick (third from left); Sergeant Edward Mayo (second from left)&nbsp;and CQMS Edmund O\u2019Sullivan (third from right) &nbsp;Officers, Warrant Officers and NCOs from E Company, December 1943. From left: CSM George Charnick (with pipe); Sgt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":17690,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17716","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17716","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=17716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17723,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17716\/revisions\/17723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}