Following our Italy trip last week, this is the first of some of the specifc threads relating to places we visited.
Sterling Castle is the name given to a small house at San Leonardo where Lt Mitchell Sterlin and his men of 16 platoon, Royal Canadian Regiment, held out against German counter-attacks on 9th December 1943. One accounts recalls:
The road from the coastal highway to San Leonardo is signed today as Royal Canadian Avenue. In amongst a group of houses barely 500 metres from the battalion start line, there remains a building known to RCR veterans as Sterlin Castle. It was here that Lieutenant Mitchell Sterlin and 11 men of 16 Platoon, A Co., RCR, held off repeated attacks and then withdrew in good order when the enemy was spent.
Overcoming The Moro: Army, Part 67 | Legion Magazine
This is the house today:
