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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1736983" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://scontent-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10940410_652602374869558_5314945172808132738_n.jpg?oh=6a400b386d918dfffb2f59a132701ed2&amp;oe=55919F2C" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Guardsmen from the 3rd Battalion Welsh Guards are passed by a Sherman tank of the 26th Armoured Brigade, 6th Armoured Division as they move forward on Route 6 to attack Monte Piccolo outside Arce, Lazio, Italy. 27th of May 1944.3rd Battalion History (extract for the 27th of May)&quot;...... they came out in to the spring sunshine. The battle line moving forward. It was not until they reached the town of Arce on the road to Rome that the Battalion was called for. The 3rd Battalion was a long way back in the divisional column when they were ordered to come up in tanks. They &quot;married&quot; with the Lothians and Border Horse and moved up to an assembly area behind the Grenadier Guards. They had had a tiresome journey; the tracks had been bull-dozed through the farmlands, in the rear it was overcrowded with traffic struggling to push forward. Mounted on the tanks the Battalion was separated from the transport, which resulted in the men having no hot meal, and wireless batteries could not be renewed. They could not see beyond the rising ground which lay ahead but their maps told them that Arce lay about six miles from their assembly area, two miles before they reached the highway they now ran through Monte Oria which lay on the right and Monte Piccolo and Monte Grande on the left. Information was received that the enemies were leaving Acre and the hills were not being held in which they passed. It was not clear that the enemy had moved, and this was to prove right as patrols were sent out. Of the Battle that was fought at Arce the 1st Guards Brigade received nearly three hundred casualties, of which one hundred and twelvewere Welsh Guardsmen.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1736983, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://scontent-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10940410_652602374869558_5314945172808132738_n.jpg?oh=6a400b386d918dfffb2f59a132701ed2&oe=55919F2C[/IMG] Guardsmen from the 3rd Battalion Welsh Guards are passed by a Sherman tank of the 26th Armoured Brigade, 6th Armoured Division as they move forward on Route 6 to attack Monte Piccolo outside Arce, Lazio, Italy. 27th of May 1944. 3rd Battalion History (extract for the 27th of May) "...... they came out in to the spring sunshine. The battle line moving forward. It was not until they reached the town of Arce on the road to Rome that the Battalion was called for. The 3rd Battalion was a long way back in the divisional column when they were ordered to come up in tanks. They "married" with the Lothians and Border Horse and moved up to an assembly area behind the Grenadier Guards. They had had a tiresome journey; the tracks had been bull-dozed through the farmlands, in the rear it was overcrowded with traffic struggling to push forward. Mounted on the tanks the Battalion was separated from the transport, which resulted in the men having no hot meal, and wireless batteries could not be renewed. They could not see beyond the rising ground which lay ahead but their maps told them that Arce lay about six miles from their assembly area, two miles before they reached the highway they now ran through Monte Oria which lay on the right and Monte Piccolo and Monte Grande on the left. Information was received that the enemies were leaving Acre and the hills were not being held in which they passed. It was not clear that the enemy had moved, and this was to prove right as patrols were sent out. Of the Battle that was fought at Arce the 1st Guards Brigade received nearly three hundred casualties, of which one hundred and twelve were Welsh Guardsmen." [/QUOTE]

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