Ascari, Dubats, Meharisti and other Italian colonial soldiers at random

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and now some Meharisti postcard with their dromedaries.....

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..... die nocteque vigilat (day and night watch)

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honor guards of Meharisti at Palazzo Venezia (Mussolini Residence in Rome) in 1937

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a Royal House Meharista (the officers of departments Meharists were the elite of the Italian Cavalry) : Amedeo Duca d'Aosta

(we have already seen the Duke of Aosta in the postcards de 4th Eritreo the Amba Alagi mountain)

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Amedeo died POW in Nairobi in March 1942

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another beautiful postcard of another important official Meharista .... postcard sent from Garan (80-90 km south of Tripoli in the operations of "pacification" of Tripolitania) to a fellow officer ...

Lieutenant Antonio Gualano 3 "Gruppo Sahariano della Tripolitania" :
about 350 men on 3-4 platoons; the dromedaries were about 20% more than men. Each platoon had generally one Italian official, seven Italian soldiers and 67 Libyans. Also a machine-gun section (2 Fiat 14) for one other official Italian + 43 indigenous

Nomadismo! "nomadism" in military jargon of colonial cavalry means wherever it happens behind the rebels ....

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Garian....

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and the Meharista Lieutenant Antonio Meharista Gualano, 14 years later in 1943 (now Major, and with silver medal on the Russian front) will be among with the Italian Delegation to the Armistice ... finally a pamphlet of a radio speech for the Anniversary of Italy Indipendence in 1961, when he was General and commander of the Italian Army

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another two photos of Italian Meharisti officers for another beautiful colonial soldier (and not only!) ...

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it is a lot of very important (about 60-70 post cards) of two generations of Cavalry Officers ....

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the father General Vittorio Litta Modignani (a noble family from Milan) soldier from the wars of Independence, then in Lybia, and finally in the IWW, ends his career as a cavalry general in the 20's ....

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but the protagonist of these postcards, and without a doubt the son: Alberto ... cavalry officer too, in Lybia with Meharisti in the second half of the 20's .... some of his postcards from Africa

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Alberto Litta Modigliani in the 30's in his cavalry uniform

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his signature : Alberto (in the several letters to his mother)