Steven Broomfield Posted 22 July , 2020 Share Posted 22 July , 2020 My soon-to-be daughter-in-law has just seen the British Naturalisation papers for her great grandfather, Pietro Cavallini. In the extract she sent me, it states that her served between 1915 and 1919 in the Carabiniere a Piedi ('on foot', one assumes) in Rome, Florence and Siena, and on the Italian Front. From December 1918 to August 1919 was with the Italian Military Attache in London, being discharged in Florence in December 1919. How easy is it to research Italian records of the period? Any suggestions gratefully received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Mackenzie Posted 22 July , 2020 Share Posted 22 July , 2020 Italian records seem to be held by military district so it depends where Pietro was born. This website may give some clues: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Italy_Military_Records#Service_Records_.5BRegistro_di_Ruolo.5D. Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 23 July , 2020 Author Share Posted 23 July , 2020 Cheers. I'll pass it on. Incidentally, and nothing to do with Pietro or the Great War, I must recommend Mussolini's War, by John Gooch, as an excellent study of the eponymous dictator and Italy during the Second World War. It does serve as a very good follow-on to any study of Italy in the GW, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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