Sicily '43. James Holland

however, as the move was not expected to be completed until 3 July. By that time they were bivouacked about 20 miles north of the ancient city of Kairouan and 10 miles south of Enfidaville, where just a couple of months earlier there had been fierce fighting. Battle debris was still strewn all over the place. ‘The loneliest sight in the world,’ Gavin jotted in his diary, ‘is to come across a lone grave in the desert marked only with a simple wooden cross and a rusty helmet.’13 He was keenly aware that one day very soon, that could easily be him.