I'm currently kicking myself as I forgot that D.A.S. Adair , 6GG , was killed on Camino and is buried in Cassino War Cemetery.
CWGC :: Casualty Details
Son of Maj-Gen Adair, GOC, Guards Armoured Division.
Here is a view of Monte Camino overlooking the hamlet of Mieli, where we found the scorpion, the mule track leads up from there too.
If I remember correctly, the Scots Guards went up from Mieli to aid 6 GG.
The Grenadiers history also mentions Mieli.
Quote:
Four hundred and eighty three Grenadiers had gone up to Camino, and only two hundred and sixty three returned.
Of the survivors, some could scarcely move from frost-bite, and others arrived back in Mieli in a state of such exhaustion that even the prospect of rum , blankets and a hot meal after all those days of cold and rain and near starvation could not rouse them to stir another yard.
They slept in the caves and shells of houses, indifferent to the heavy gunfire around them.
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Here is another wartime photo of Camino.
