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by KosmoCramer
30 May 2019, 14:49
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help
Replies: 22
Views: 5318

Re: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help

Thanks again for the help. I sent an email to both pages. I am hoping I get a response!
by KosmoCramer
29 May 2019, 20:32
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help
Replies: 22
Views: 5318

Re: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help



...Do you know what the inconsistencies are?

Detenuto:
arrestato il 04/02 /1945; detenuto ad Albenga (SV) sino al 02/02 /1945

https://www.ilsrec.it/database/partigiano.php?RicercaID=3111


I was wondering perhaps if they had it backwards? Such that he was captured in February and released in ...
by KosmoCramer
29 May 2019, 14:57
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help
Replies: 22
Views: 5318

Re: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help


I suggest you write to the Institute for the History of the Resistance in Savona, sending them a copy of the photo. I think they would be very interested in receiving a document of that period for their archive and might be able to provide more accurate information about the meaning of the script ...
by KosmoCramer
17 May 2019, 12:43
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help
Replies: 22
Views: 5318

Re: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help





Buongiorno @Angela. Sì, la nota si riferisce ad armamenti


Grazie a entrambi per l'aiuto!

Mmogno, is the whole text “cinghia per l’arma - W.C. - miccia e cappsule ?

Thank you, Ciao


You are very welcome for the help, KosmoCramar. So pleased that mmogno was able to fill in the gaps ...
by KosmoCramer
17 May 2019, 04:53
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help
Replies: 22
Views: 5318

Re: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help



Interesting photo. I agree that the script at the top of the photo is different from the signature at the bottom which reads "Partisan Negrini".

I'm wondering whether the first word, while it looks like it starts with an "L" actually starts with a "C". It might be Cinghia per l'arma W - C ...
by KosmoCramer
17 Aug 2018, 02:18
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help
Replies: 22
Views: 5318

Re: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help

Also are you able to decipher any of the text up top... I really can’t figure out any of it
by KosmoCramer
16 Aug 2018, 23:11
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help
Replies: 22
Views: 5318

Re: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help


In the Savona area, "Negrini " was the battle name of Aldo Peluffi, born in Vado Ligure (SV) 2.04.1921. Worker, partisan of the brigade "Clelia Corradini", detachment "Santino Marcenaro "; from 5-2-1944 political commissioner of the Marcenaro detachment.


Do you know why Partigiano Negrini would ...
by KosmoCramer
16 Aug 2018, 16:13
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help
Replies: 22
Views: 5318

Re: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help

Here is the top text edited to make it more readable. Thanks again!
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by KosmoCramer
16 Aug 2018, 08:30
Forum: Italian language, handwriting , script & translations
Topic: WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help
Replies: 22
Views: 5318

WWII photo / postcard - handwriting help

Hello all!

The photo here is my grandfather in WWII. He was an Italian partisan fighting the Germans and was also taken prisoner by the Germans. I found this old photo of him with a note written on the back.

The only text I can really make out is the bottom - “Partigiano Negrini” - I’m assuming it ...