Below the Monte Battaglia peak, on the south side (facing Tuscany) along a trail for about 100 meters following signs.

An inscribed metal plaque about 12” by 12” mounted to a brick wall marking the location where the soldiers remains we found.

Private Harry Castilloux served in Company L, 350^th Infantry Regiment, 88^th Infantry Division during he Second World War.  During the Battle of Monte Battaglia on 4/5 October 1944, during an enemy counterattack, he was killed listed as missing in action (MIA).  His named was inscribed on the Florence American Cemetery Tablets of Missing.  His body was located and exhumed in 1998 and he was positively identified in 1999. PVT Castilloux name is permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Florence Memorial. When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite. In 2000, he was reburied in the family burial plot in Michigan.

Thanks to the War Museum (Museo) Gothic Line in Castel del Rio for assistance with this site.

The text on the marker is written in Italian. It reads along with its translation:

88^th Infantry Division (88^th Infantry Division Insignia) 350 RGT

HARRY CASTILLOUX

CADUTO TRA IL 4 E IL 5 OTTOBRE 1944

(FELL BETWEEN 4 AND 5 OCTOBER 1944)

RIESUMATO IL 22 OTTOBRE 1998

(EXHUMED 22 OCTOBER 1998)