In Memory of
IVOR JAMES KINGSCOTT
Lance Corporal
14533019
2nd Bn., Somerset Light Infantry
who died on
Wednesday, 5th July 1944. Age 22.
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Son of James Kingscott, and of Nellie
Kingscott, of Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. |
Commemorative Information
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CASSINO MEMORIAL, Italy |
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: |
Panel 5.
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The Cassino Memorial is situated within
Cassino War Cemetery, which lies in the Commune of Cassino, Province of
Frosinone, 139 kilometres south-east of Rome. Above it, at a distance of
1 kilometre, is the dominating hill on which stands the Abbey of Monte
Cassino. Take the autostrada A2 from Rome to Naples and leave it at the
Cassino exit. At the junction of this exit and the road into Cassino, is
the first of 6 clearly visible signposts to the cemetery and Memorial.
The Memorial consists of pillars of green marble which rise
approximately 5 metres on either side of an ornamental pool and a formal
garden. The names of over 4,000 men with no known graves are inscribed
on these pillars, representing nearly one-tenth of over 49,000 members
of the Commonwealth forces who died in the fighting in Italy. On the
walls above the stairways which lead up from the main road to the
Cemetery, the following words, in English and Italian, are inscribed:
1939 - WITHIN THIS CEMETERY STAND MONUMENTS WHICH BEAR THE NAMES OF
SOLDIERS OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIRE WHO FELL IN THE ASSAULTS
UPON THE SHORES OF SICILY AND ITALY OR IN LATER BATTLES TO FREE ITALIAN
SOIL AND TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED A KNOWN AND HONOURED GRAVE.
AROUND THEM ARE THE GRAVES OF THEIR COMRADES WHO DIED FIGHTING IN THESE
PARTS TO OPEN THE WAY TO ROME AND THE NORTH - 1945
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