Prince Harry paid an official visit to Monte Cassino, the rocky hill eighty miles outside the Italian capital, Rome, for a commemorative service in honour of the \u201cForgotten Campaign\u201d of World War Two. The famous Abbey of Monte Cassino\u00a0was first established in the sixth century by St. Benedict of Nursia. Its strategic position however made it a target over the centuries and sacked repeatedly. The last and perhaps most important occasion came \u00a0seventy years ago, between January-May 1944, \u00a0when The Allies fought a vital battle with Axis Forces\u00a0to gain access to Rome. The campaign was protracted and hard fought and the eventual capture of the abbey came at a high prices with some 115,000 casualties. The honour of taking the hilltop fell to Polish II Corps.\u00a0For the ceremony Prince Harry wore Household Cavalry uniform, joined by Polish PM Donald Tusk and\u00a0General Wieslaw Grudzinski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prince Harry paid an official visit to Monte Cassino, the rocky hill eighty miles outside the Italian capital, Rome, for a commemorative service in honour of the \u201cForgotten Campaign\u201d of World War Two. The famous Abbey of Monte Cassino\u00a0was first established in the sixth century by St. Benedict of Nursia. Its strategic position however made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[91,154,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-1283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-harry","9":"tag-italy","10":"tag-wwii"},"yoast_head":"\n