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Owen · 07-03-2008, 11:38 PM

I hope this isn't appearing as a self-indulgent thread, rather more as information shared.
Reading in Rome '44 by Raleigh Trevelyan about this action.
He says the Gulley was a pozzolana quarry , as it appears it still is looking at the GE image.
Lt Paul Freyburg, son of the New Zealand General Freyburg VC, was captured in the same action.
Marmaduke Hussey was also wounded & captured there too.
The Gulley was attacked by No7 Company of Grenadier Regiment 147 , under Leutnant Heinrich Wunn, who would win the Knight's Cross for his bravery on that & subsequent days.
There were also men from the US 504 Parachute Regiment involved in that action too.
When the Germans had captured the Gully it appeared to have been used as a supply base. Everthing was arranged in piles-rifles, ammo, barbed wire,spades, uniforms, Red Cross material . Some motor-bikes & lorries loaded with food.
The Germans ate what cold rations they could but were weary of booby-traps.
Staff-Sergeant Bernhard Luy was annoyed to see some pigs eating a dead Tommy so he shot at them so he and another man buried the half-eaten Tommy.
He commented that 'Is this what we're fighting for ? To be eaten by pigs?'
Later they found several tins of cigarettes and a lot of chocolate.

07-03-2008, 11:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 9,456	I hope this isn't appearing as a self-indulgent thread, rather more as information shared. Reading in Rome '44 by Raleigh Trevelyan about this action. He says the Gulley was a pozzolana quarry , as it appears it still is looking at the GE image. Lt Paul Freyburg, son of the New Zealand General Freyburg VC, was captured in the same action. Marmaduke Hussey was also wounded & captured there too. The Gulley was attacked by No7 Company of Grenadier Regiment 147 , under Leutnant Heinrich Wunn, who would win the Knight's Cross for his bravery on that & subsequent days. There were also men from the US 504 Parachute Regiment involved in that action too. When the Germans had captured the Gully it appeared to have been used as a supply base. Everthing was arranged in piles-rifles, ammo, barbed wire,spades, uniforms, Red Cross material . Some motor-bikes & lorries loaded with food. The Germans ate what cold rations they could but were weary of booby-traps. Staff-Sergeant Bernhard Luy was annoyed to see some pigs eating a dead Tommy so he shot at them so he and another man buried the half-eaten Tommy. He commented that 'Is this what we're fighting for ? To be eaten by pigs?' Later they found several tins of cigarettes and a lot of chocolate. Last edited by Owen; 07-03-2008 at 11:46 PM.