An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold nineteen-year-old Josephine Carr from Cork

nineteen-year-old Josephine Carr from Cork

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

5 mm x 54 mm

gold and red enamelled centrepiece

Impressed: William Gillard

An Italian Youth Fascist Opera Balilla Caserta Badge Hold nineteen-year-old Josephine Carr from CorkAn 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.