Italian Campaign, Lauro, near Avellino, Campania, 19 January 1944: a British Army’s officer, Lieutenant Olaf Branns, of Hill House, Watlington, Oxfordshire, according the IWM, takes the chance of a much needed sleep in a haystack during a lull in the battle. Victor Sierra

The warrior’s rest

Sicily, Summer 1943: a British 4.5 inch Medium Field Gun rounding a difficult bend in the hills between Scilla and Palmi during the operations after the Allied landing in Sicily. Note in background the coast and the sea (British Admiralty Photograph BNA6754 via Australian War Memorial). Victor Sierra

Along a Sicily’s road

Italian Campaign: infantries from the British Eighth Army deployed on the Adriatic front, training with the use of flamethrowers before the attack to the Gothic Line. likely Autumn 1944. Victor Sierra