Thank you bewdley,
that's the first time I've seen it, it does mention Italy there but someone researched the battalion history and found out it was actually over the border into Austria.
Grandad had a hard life although he lived into his nineties, he was a foundling left in a basket on a doorstep somewhere in Victorian Birmingham
I never knew my Grandmother, she died giving birth to my mum and then his wife's family shunned him and he was left to care for two girls. He advertised for a wife and a deaf lady replied and they were married, I can just about remember her