"Sergeant P Hopkinson of the Royal Engineers, the first Allied soldier to be attached to an Italian Unit after the Armistice, with Italian artillerymen who are explaining shell markings to him, 22 September 1943." Sergeant P Hopkinson of the Royal Engineers, who was the first Allied soldier to be attached to an Italian Unit after the Armistice, with Italian artillerymen who are explaining shell markings to him.