reilly..p326 .The Note-book of a Lieutenant in the Italian Campaign: Robert Dalzell Dillon Thomas, Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards. 1st Ed., [iii]+38pp. Privately printed. nd (c.1946).
Thomas was Ed. at Sherborne & Oxford, joined Grenadier Guards 1942 & KiA in Italy in August 1944. Contains a short memoir, a selection of his poetry, diary extracts during voyage to the Med. & landing at Salerno ("Huge ship... saloons like London restaurants, draughty sitting rooms, very bad loud speakers which broadcast inaudible news bulletins...") [Sherborne, Dorset : Privately printed, 1946]

(M: c1922 - 1944 Aug 22

from reilly..p326 ..served as a lieutenant in the grenadier guards in Italy, KIA near florence on the night of 2-3 August, 1944.