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This is a child of my direct relative, Domenico Squaserio. It looks like he died in the war. If someone can translate, I would really love to know what it says. Thanks Peonygirl
Heading: Soldiers Fallen in the War 1915-1918
Squarserio, Donato di Pasquale, 144 Infantry Regiment soldier, born 2 Oct 1890, District of Teramo military, died 13 Aug 1916 on Monte Santa Caterina for injuries sustained in combat.
Wow!!! Thank you Mmogno - this is outstanding. It says Umberto, Alanno Piazza - I will work on the translation of the text you sent. It won't automatically translate so that means it is a photo, not text.
What's also interesting to me is that there are several names of my family in this monument. Odoardi, di Gregorio, and Colangelo - none of them directly though except for Donato. Must have been a regiment pulling from local town of Alanno.
Just amazing. I've been looking at the first link - cimeetrincee - and roaming through the archives. I will also look at this blog. I see an Antonio Odoardi - could be a relative as the "original" Antonio ancestor who was a GG a few times over, died in 1834.
The photos of these young men are heartbreaking - so much promise and so young. You've given all of us lots to search, thank you so much!!!!
Thanks! What a great researcher.... I especially appreciate the link as I can open it in my browser and use Google Translate so the whole thing is in English. More good info to digest....P
As a nation state, Italy has emerged only in 1871. Until then the country was politically divided into a large number of independant cities, provinces and islands. The currently available evidences point out to a dominant Etruscan, Greek and Roman cultural influence on today's Italians. The earlies...
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