Grave Location: V.J.4 Isolated Burial

A standard Commonwealth Grave Commission (CWGC) inscribed gravestone.

From the CWGC Files:

PESKO, JOHN LAWRENCE

Service Number: B/258

Died 27/05/1944

Aged 21

5th Armd. Regt. 

8th Princess Louise's (New Brunswick) Hussars, R.C.A.C.

Son of John and Anna Pesko, of Warren, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

INSCRIPTION

REST IN PEACE OUR DEAR SON AND BROTHER TILL WE MEET IN HEAVEN

About the cemetery: The site for CASSINO WAR CEMETERY was originally selected in January 1944, but the development of the battle during the first five months of that year made it impossible to use it until after the Germans had withdrawn from Cassino. During these early months of 1944, Cassino saw some of the fiercest fighting of the Italian campaign, the town itself and the dominating Monastery Hill proving the most stubborn obstacles encountered in the advance towards Rome. The majority of those buried in the war cemetery died in the battles during these months.

The text on the gravestone is written in English and reads:

B258  TROOPER

J.L. PESKO

8th Princess Louise's

(New Brunswick) Hussars, R.C.A.C.

27 May 1944  Age 21

(SYMBOL OF A CROSS)

REST IN PEACE OUR DEAR SON AND BROTHER TILL WE MEET IN HEAVEN