An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold during which time he picked

during which time he picked the lock of his cell and got out of the camp

Manitoba Regimental Depot

Impressed: William Gillard

nineteen-year-old Josephine Carr from Cork

An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold during which time he pickedAn 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.