An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold Impressed: William Gillard

Impressed: William Gillard

5 mm x 54 mm

nineteen-year-old Josephine Carr from Cork

then transferred to the Canadian Convalescent Convalescent at Bromley on June 22nd for thirteen weeks recuperation

was compromised

An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold Impressed: William GillardAn Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Silvered die stamped metal, 32 mm x 43. 7 mm, vertical pinback, surface oxidation and gilt wear evident, near very fine. Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning, as an addition to school education, between 1926 and 1937, and was then absorbed into the Giovent Italiana del Littorio (GIL), a youth section of the National Fascist Party.