Illustrations

Orsogna being bombed

Embarking at Alexandria for Italy

Going ashore at Taranto

Vehicles of the Divisional Cavalry make their way over muddy roads to the Sangro

Headquarters of the Divisional Artillery in its first engagement in Italy

A party of New Zealand engineers repairs a deviation by a demolished bridge

Brigadier C. E. Weir, Brigadier G. B. Parkinson, and General Freyberg before the Sangro battle

Flat land north of the Sangro River cut up by vehicles of 2 NZ Division

Manhandling a truck bogged at the Sangro

Bailey bridge over the Sangro River

18 Regiment tanks pass through a minefield after the attack on 15–16 December 1943

Engineers making a corduroy road up to the Sangro

Castelfrentano

Brigadiers Parkinson and Kippenberger and Lieutenant-Colonel R. E. Romans discuss plans for an attack

General Sir Alan Brooke (Chief of the Imperial General Staff), General Freyberg, and General Sir Harold Alexander, December 1943

A New Zealand 25-pounder in action at the Sangro

Mud near Castelfrentano

18 Regiment tank casualty on Cemetery Ridge

Road to the Divisional Signals cookhouse at the Sangro

The Majella Mountains

Transport in heavy snow

Air view of Cassino looking south-east. Castle Hill is on the left, Route 6 and the convent on the right.

This photograph makes a panorama when joined with the one on the opposite page. Route 6 is on the left, the railway and the hummock on the right, and Monte Trocchio in the middle distance

Aerial view of Cassino and Monastery Hill

Montecassino and the town

The monastery before the war

The monastery, May 1944

Cassino, November 1943

Cassino Abbey

Attack on Cassino railway station, February 1944; a view from the Maori Battalion’s RAP

The first stick of bombs falls on Cassino, 15 March 1944

Aerial view of the bombing of Cassino

Air photograph issued for operation DICKENS. The road to the monastery winds up towards the top of the picture

Cassino after bombardment. The photograph was taken from a height of 22,000 feet

The bombing of Cassino. Castle Hill is on the right

The convent from the east. This section of Route 6 crosses ‘Spandau Alley’

Cassino, twelve months later. Castle Hill in the right background

The ruins of the Continental Hotel and the castle

Looking across twelve-month-old bomb craters to the wreckage of Cassino

Wrecked tank in the ruins of Cassino

Cave used by 1 Parachute Division as ammunition dump and living quarters, Cassino

Interior of cave used by 1 Parachute Division

Looking out of the crypt, Cassino

26 Battalion attacks under smoke cover

Baron’s Palace and the Colosseum from the railway area, Cassino

Signal wires on Route 6

Castle Hill from the railway station, Cassino

Maori troops await orders to move

21 Battalion mortar team has whitebait fritters for lunch, Monte Trocchio

Tank gunline, Monte Trocchio

A 5 Field Regiment 25-pounder in position behind Monte Trocchio for ‘upper register’ shooting

Montecassino – the south side of the rebuilt abbey

Montecassino – the south-west side of the rebuilt abbey