Italia, Fascist State. A Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Girls Hold as it was now thirteen

as it was now thirteen months after his experience at Ypres: "This man was 15 months (personal recollection) in France

Below the shoulder title on the upper sleeve on both sides is a Canadian Engineers patch

1975 to August 13

an anchor and book in the foreground

Frauenschaft"

Italia, Fascist State. A Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Girls Hold as it was now thirteenItaly (Kingdom): Silver with light blue enamels, marked "800" (silver) on the reverse, 36. 7 mm x 42. 8 mm, original ribbon, intact enamels, slight discolouration evident in the silver where it butts the enamels, scuffs and contact marks, better than very 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