Can anyone help with the identification of the ribbon in this photo?
It is the first ribbon in the second row.
It is the first ribbon in the second row.
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Hi Bill
Could you please tell us which kind of uniform it is?
Italian?
Milizia?
regio esercito?
I have an idea but I ain't sure: it depends from your answer
cheers
Fabio -
Fabio...
Here is the uniform......Comment
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The ribbon, a bit faded, and stitched on the reverse, is the medal 'Valore AlOriginally posted by Bill Dienna View Post
Campo' (valour on the field), but to my knowledge, this medal has been never
adoptded.The ribbon is faded, in fact the colour in reality was deep purple,
not purple red.
The tunic maybe a tailored one for a former Ardito, after WWI.Very common
not issue clothing in that period (1919-20)
Bye,
PaoloM
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Hello.
I am sure marpo is much more expert than me.
But just to try other (probably wrong) ways
Could not be a March on Rome ribbon for the uniform?Comment
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Or could not be a Volunteers of Spain ribbon for the uniform?Comment
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Fabio and Paolo...
Thanks very much for your help. I appreciate it !
Also, my sincere thanks to Raff. I was a little confused by this tunic, and I asked Raff to look at photos of it. He identified it as a privately tailored tunic for an Arditi officer from the 1919-1920 period. But he wasn't quite certain of this ribbon, either, so I'm hoping that others might be able to solve the mystery.
Here is a photo that I found on the web of an enlisted Ardito, which I believe would be for the same time period.Comment
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Or could not be a ribbon for the Benemeriti della Gioventù Italiana del Littorio?
(surely not because the guy fought in ww1
)but the ribbon has same damn colours ....
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I never give opinions without reference. I kept my info from the notable book
of G. Rosignoli: 'Ribbons of Orders,Decorations and Medals' Blandford Colour
Series, 1976 Ed, plate 36. Ciao Paolo M
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Last wrong chace a very rare ribbon
the Roman Order of the Eagle: but the guy is an italian Ardito and so can't be this military and civil medal, awarded to the foreigners who did something good for the Italy.
Sorry Bill
I did what I could
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Gentlemen...
I am extremely grateful to all of you for the help.
Molti grazie !
(Did I say that correctly?)
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The ribbon, is of a rare medal instutuited during the great war,
to commemorate the victory of the army victorious, to the Piave,
it is not an experimental medal, but an official medal founded in 1918.
We often find her in the uniforms of the Arditi, and in those of the nationalists (Blue Shirts on 1919)
Il nastrino, è di una rara medaglia istituita durante la grande guerra,
per commemorare la vittoria dell' esercito e dell'armata vittoriose, al Piave,
non è una medaglia sperimentale, ma una medaglia ufficiale istituita nel 1918.
La troviamo spesso nelle uniformi degli arditi, e in quelle dei nazionalisti (camice azzurre 1919)
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Bill, Your's tunic probably is of 1919 when the Arditi participated in the conquest of the city of Fiume, I have an Nco tunic of the arditi ones, but it was modified with the closing of the neck, is dated, 1916.
It's a wonderfull Tunic very very rare to find in this conditions! Compliments.
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Hello,
nice thread thanks for the info.
cheers, Raff"six italians, dressed in rather unusual diving suits and equipped with materials of laughably little cost have swung the military balance of power in the Mediterranean in favour of the Axis".Comment
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Many thanks for not only identifying the medal, but showing it to us !
Thanks, too, for posting the photo of the superb Arditi tunic !
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