{"id":168,"date":"2015-03-11T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/?p=168"},"modified":"2022-12-25T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T05:17:11","slug":"episode-7-towards-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/episode-7-towards-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 7 &#8211; Towards Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we hear from a reinforcement joining the fight, and we follow the New Zealand infantry as they move northwards up through Italy towards the important city of Florence. They encounter the formidable Paula Line, a series of defences around Florence that included the stronghold villages of San Michele and La Romola.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featuring&nbsp;in order of their first appearance in this episode:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Norm Harris (24 Battalion)<br \/>\nBrynn Hughes&nbsp; (22 Battalion)<br \/>\nClem Hollies&nbsp;(21 Battalion)<br \/>\nColin Murray&nbsp;(24 Battalion)<br \/>\nAlan Ambury&nbsp; (24 Battalion)<br \/>\nHarry Hopping (24 Battalion)<br \/>\nPat Green&nbsp;(24 Battalion)<br \/>\nJack Cummins (22 Battalion)<br \/>\nTed &#8220;Bluey&#8221; Homewood (21 Battalion)<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6047\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-168-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_7.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_7.mp3\">https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_7.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_7.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/?powerpress_pinw=168-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courage_And_Valour_Episode_7.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Courage_And_Valour_Episode_7.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we hear from a reinforcement joining the fight, and we follow the New Zealand infantry as they move northwards up through Italy towards the important city of Florence. They encounter the formidable Paula Line, a series of defences around Florence that included the stronghold villages of San Michele and La Romola.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring&nbsp;in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,158,6,110,165,168,115,8,9,167,56,166,53,98,12,11],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episodes","tag-army","tag-battle","tag-courage-and-valour","tag-division","tag-florence","tag-freyberg","tag-infantry","tag-italian-campaign","tag-italy","tag-la-romola","tag-new-zealand","tag-san-michele","tag-second-world-war","tag-war","tag-ww2","tag-wwii","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzealandersatwar.com\/Couarage_And_Valour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}