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Paul Reed · 26-05-2008, 08:50 PM

This is Mitchell Sterlin, and his details:

Lieutenant Mitchell Sterlin of Montreal, Quebec, was killed in action on December 19, 1943. He was posthumously mentioned in dispatches in the King’s New Year's Honors List in January 1945. Enlisting in the army at the outbreak of hostilities, he graduated in August 1942 from the Officers’ Training Centre at Gordon Head, British Columbia, where he received his commission. He went overseas the following March. On Yom Kippur Day, 1943, he landed in Italy. Attached to the British Eighth Army in Italy, Lieutenant Sterlin was killed in action (Casualty List No. 415, Jan. 27, 1944). Only two days before a sniper’s bullet ended his life, Lieutenant Sterlin led an attack by 11 men that smashed a Nazi counter-attack, killing 40 Nazis and forcing the remainder to retreat. He led the defence, although urged to retreat from a strong point on the Ortona front, which in regimental records bears the name of “Sterlin House.” Lieutenant Sterlin participated in the battles of Ridge Hill, Campobasso, Oritino, Castropignano, Malise, Juronia, the Moro River and Ortona. After the fighting in Sicily, he had been placed in command of a Sicilian town.

Source: CJC

26-05-2008, 08:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
Paul Reed Ubique Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France Posts: 4,103	This is Mitchell Sterlin, and his details: Lieutenant Mitchell Sterlin of Montreal, Quebec, was killed in action on December 19, 1943. He was posthumously mentioned in dispatches in the King’s New Year's Honors List in January 1945. Enlisting in the army at the outbreak of hostilities, he graduated in August 1942 from the Officers’ Training Centre at Gordon Head, British Columbia, where he received his commission. He went overseas the following March. On Yom Kippur Day, 1943, he landed in Italy. Attached to the British Eighth Army in Italy, Lieutenant Sterlin was killed in action (Casualty List No. 415, Jan. 27, 1944). Only two days before a sniper’s bullet ended his life, Lieutenant Sterlin led an attack by 11 men that smashed a Nazi counter-attack, killing 40 Nazis and forcing the remainder to retreat. He led the defence, although urged to retreat from a strong point on the Ortona front, which in regimental records bears the name of “Sterlin House.” Lieutenant Sterlin participated in the battles of Ridge Hill, Campobasso, Oritino, Castropignano, Malise, Juronia, the Moro River and Ortona. After the fighting in Sicily, he had been placed in command of a Sicilian town. Source: CJC __________________ The WW2 Society: Remembering those from Britain & The Commonwealth who served 1939-45 - http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/ww2_society.htm