{"id":23535,"date":"2026-04-05T09:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=23535"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:06:35","slug":"23535-2","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\/23535-2\/","title":{"rendered":"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<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&nbsp;E Company, Italy, 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Officer Commanding Captain Gerald Fitzgerald (fourth from left of front row), 2-ic Pat Giles\u00a0(fourth from right with\u00a0CSM George Charnick (third from left); Sergeant Edward Mayo (second from left)\u00a0and CQMS Edmund O\u2019Sullivan (third from right)<\/p>\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<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Officers, Warrant Officers and NCOs from E Company, December 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"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.<\/p>\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<p class=\"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.<\/p>\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 Captain Gerald Fitzgerald (fourth from left of front row), 2-ic Pat Giles\u00a0(fourth from right with\u00a0CSM George Charnick (third from left); Sergeant Edward Mayo (second from left)\u00a0and CQMS Edmund O\u2019Sullivan (third from right) Officers, Warrant Officers and NCOs from E Company, December 1943. From left: CSM George Charnick (with pipe); [&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-23535","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23535","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=23535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23542,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23535\/revisions\/23542"}],"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=23535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}