The next year, Ramsay, landed the British 8th Army in Sicily and continued to provide naval bombardment throughout the successful Sicilian campaign. Ramsay's experience in commanding invasion ...

Commissioned into the British Army in 1915 ... in November 1942 and took command of the 13th Corps of the 8th Army in North Africa. In July 1943, the Corps, under Miles Dempsey's command, formed ...

Germany was tricked into concentrating its forces away from Sicily. Just before dawn on 10 July 1943, the British 8th Army and US 7th Army landed at Castellazo, on the south eastern tip of Sicily.