So began one of the best or­gan­ized moves the unit had par­ti­ci­pa­ted in.  There was a stop-​over of one day at FOL­IGNO which was fil­led in with mov­ies and sports.  The next sta­ging area was at PON­TAS­SI­EVE with ever­y­one in tents.  There was a good NAAFI and mor­ale was high.  A Bri­tish Royal Ar­til­lery Co­lo­nel stop­ped Lieut. H.E. New­man and in­struc­ted him to tell the Com­man­ding Of­fi­cer that it was the best con­voy he had ever seen.  The fol­low­ing day the Regi­ment pas­sed thro­ugh FLOR­ENCE en­ding up at HAR­ROD's Sta­ging Camp near LEG­HORN.  The route was very moun­tain­ous and when the unit had to halt for a short while at a one-way Bai­ley Bridge an Amer­ican Ma­jor stop­ped to ex­press his ad­mir­a­tion to Lieut. R.H. Elli­son at the way the traf­fic sen­tries hand­led the traf­fic past their hal­ted vehi­cles.  It was now ob­vi­ous that the Divi­sion was not head­ing for the 5th Army Front and con­si­der­able lire chan­ged hands.