An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Archive 6 mm x 70 mm

6 mm x 70 mm x 19

italy as a member of the Carleton and York Regiment

his citation stating: "The President of the United States of America

1 Clasp - COREE (bronze

as he was "Gassed" (mustard gas) on November 2

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Archive 6 mm x 70 mmItaly : Silver, maker marked "S. JOHNSON MILANO" on the reverse, 38 mm, vertical pinback, dark patina, very light contact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning between 1926 and 1937, when it was absorbed into the Giovent Italiana del Littorio (GIL), a youth section of the National Fascist Party. It takes its name from Balilla, the nickname of Giovan Battista Perasso, a