Bombing Pompeii by Nigel Pollard;

Author:Nigel Pollard; [Pollard, Nigel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS027000 History / Military / General
Publisher: University of Michigan Press (limited)
Published: 2020-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

The low rank of Gardner and other monuments officers in Naples relative to other officers with whom they might come into contact and contention was a recurring issue. Even when British War Office Archaeological Adviser Sir Leonard Woolley, a lieutenant-colonel, came to Naples on an inspection visit in December, his arguments against requisition were ignored, in the short-term at least, although they may have contributed to the establishment of the subsequent Collier Commission. One of the recommendations advanced by Mortimer Wheeler, who was in Naples about the time of Woolley’s visit, was for monuments officers of higher rank, with a brigadier as archaeological adviser, with authority to contact commanders directly.28 This was never achieved, however. Most wartime monuments officers were captains and majors, with Colonels Geoffrey Webb, the British adviser to SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, in northwestern Europe) and Henry C. Newton (US Army) the highest-ranking specialist officers.

Regardless of the many difficulties Gardner faced in his first few weeks in Naples, they would only get worse. For on 17 November 1943, he received word from Maiuri that the Museo Nazionale was to be requisitioned for British military use.

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