{"id":23522,"date":"2026-04-05T08:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=23522"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:06:47","slug":"george-charnick-spanish-steps-july-1944","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/second-world-war\/38-irish-brigade-1942-1947\/personal-accounts\/csm-george-charnick-dcm\/george-charnick-spanish-steps-july-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"George Charnick &#8211; Spanish Steps, July 1944"},"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\/Spanish002.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>E Company Colour Sergeant Edmund O\u2019Sullivan on the Spanish Steps. This photograph was probably taken during Ted\u2019s second visit to Rome after the Battle of Trasimeno. He had hoped to act as MC for mass in St Peter\u2019s Basilica but was ordered to go to the Franciscan monastery close to the steps to prepare dinner for the battalion. Ted has his Africa Star decoration on his left breast.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/Spanish003.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>E Company Colour Sergeant Edmund O\u2019Sullivan (left) with E Compamy Sergeant-Major George Charnick (centre) at the foot of the Spanish Steps. The other Sergeant is Sgt Jock McNally.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/Spanish004.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">E Company Sergeant-Major George Charnick on the Spanish Steps in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishbrigade.co.uk\/media\/Spanish001.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Sgt Jock McNally on the Spanish Steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E Company Colour Sergeant Edmund O\u2019Sullivan on the Spanish Steps. This photograph was probably taken during Ted\u2019s second visit to Rome after the Battle of Trasimeno. He had hoped to act as MC for mass in St Peter\u2019s Basilica but was ordered to go to the Franciscan monastery close to the steps to prepare dinner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":23513,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23522","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=23522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23523,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23522\/revisions\/23523"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}