103/B Position on the River Piave - 26 October 1918

This is where British troops forced a crossing over the Piave in the final advance. This diagram shows the general layout of signal wires connecting the guns, observation posts, headquarters and officers mess via the telephone pit.

No diary entries for this stage of the war survived. The official War Diary for October is here.

This was the start of a major offensive, to cross the river Piave, by 10th Italian Army comprising XIth and XVIII Italian Corps and XIVth British Corps (23 Div and 7 Div). The Battery position at war's end in the Italian theatre on 4th November was Pordenone, about 40km NE from here.