Men of the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers moving up to the front line during the attack on Centuripe, Sicily, August 1943

Photograph, World War Two, Sicily, 1943.

Centuripe was situated on high ground in mountainous country that lent itself to defence, but the Inniskillings and their comrades from 38th (Irish) Infantry Brigade were among the first troops to enter the Sicilian town.

From a collection of British official war photographs relating to the 78th Division.