In response to the many questions we get from visitors to Carinthia, this page features accounts of the advance of British troops into Carinthia from Italy in May 1945 and developments during the occupation up until the withdrawal of British troops in October 1955. We’ll be adding more texts as we resolve copyright questions.
- Transcription of a document prepared by the Military Division of the Allied Commission for Austria in February 1946, entitled “Notes on Austria. A Brief Account of Military Forces in Austria, British Zone”, courtesy of The National Archives.
- Transcription of an excerpt from The War Diary of Frank Rayner, Royal Army Medical Corps, courtesy of the Kärntner Landesarchiv.
- Remembering May 1945. A brief account published in the Club Newsletter on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.
- Transcription of a chapter on Austria from The History of the Royal Corps of Engineers, Vol. 10, 1986.