Grenadier Guardsmen serving with the Fifth Army climbing a steep road to their forward positions, 1944

Photograph, World War Two, Italy (1943-1945), 1944.

The 3rd, 5th and 6th Battalions of the Grenadier Guards all saw service during the hard-fought Italian campaign, the 5th being part of the force that landed at Anzio in January 1944.

From a collection of 650 photographs compiled by the Commando Association.