One of the things I tried to do with the kids is to give them a sense of the contributions Canada made to Europe during the two world wars. We lost a relative here, First Lt. Russell Geddes Douglas. Cassino was on a line of ridges blocking the Allied advance to Rome from Sicily. The fighting was particularly tough here and despite many battles it was really only over run once the Allies had also made a landing on the other side of the ridge up the coast at Anzio. Cassino was one of the sites of the most Canadian casualties during the war. You can see from the pictures why it was so hard for the Allies to take.
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| They never found his remains. |
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