XVI Battaglione Coloniale (Eritreo)
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the same subjet in its postacard.....Comment
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Always the leopard in the medal of XII Battaglione Arabo Somalo....Comment
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and its postcard in the green colors of the battalion....Comment
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and one of the most common (and nice) italian colonial medal : Corpo D'Armata Eritreo.... the bronze version...Comment
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and the silver...Comment
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a postcard as interlude ... Regio Corpo Truppe Coloniali della Somalia.... one has a important signature
(so I introduce the signatures that are one of the most important parts of this collection)Last edited by mufasa; 12-28-2014, 08:27 AM.Comment
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the sender of the postcard is General Luigi :
Colonel, commander of the border region of Ogaden and the Somali Troops, Somaliland, 1935-1936
General Corps Troops Volunteers in Spain, 1936-1937
General, 20th Division Friuli, Spain, 1937-1938
General, XX Corps, Libya, 1938-1939
Governor of Amara, Ethiopia, 1939-1941
Governor of Eritrea - 1940 to 1941
Overall, the Eritrean Army, East Africa, 1940-1941
Prisoner of War, 1941
his photo in Spain will around a captured Russian tank and its memories as commander of the Italian Colonial Troops in SomaliaComment
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for the older Colonial Battalions of the war and iuerrilla of Libya (1911 -1931) then reconstituted in 1936 during the war in Ethiopia and II WWd, there are more types of medals and postcards... for example two postcards (old and new) of the VIII Battaglione Coloniale EritreoComment
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and the medal of the Ethiopian war time of the VIIIComment
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the same subject for the postcard and the medal of the XXXII Battaglione ColonialeComment
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... the postcardComment
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I Brigata Coloniale......Comment
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details of the medal..........Comment
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XXIV Eritreo.....Comment
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