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Silver Medal Of Military Valor
The Silver Medal of Military Valor () is an Italian medal for gallantry. Italian medals for valor were first instituted by Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia on 21 May 1793, with a gold medal, and, below it, a silver medal. These were intended for junior officers or common soldiers who had distinguished themselves in combat. These medals fell into disuse during the period of Napoleonic domination. They were reinstated on 1 April 1815, by Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, who, however, abolished them only a few months later, on 4 August 1815, replacing them with the Military Order of Savoy (l'Ordine militare di Savoia), now known as the Military Order of Italy. However, in 1833, Charles Albert of Sardinia, recognizing that the Military Order was too exclusive in that it could only be awarded to persons of high rank, re-instituted the medals for valor (gold and silver) as awards for noble acts performed by soldiers in both war and peace. According to royal decree no. 753 of 24 May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medaglia D'argento Al Valor Militare-regno
Medaglia is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Eros Medaglia (born 1994), Argentine footballer * Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, Costa Rican jurist * Júlio Medaglia (born 1938), Brazilian musician * Diamante Medaglia Faini (1724–1770), Italian poet See also *Medaglia d'Oro (horse) {{surname Italian-language surnames Surnames of Italian origin Surnames of Argentine origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Bellomo (general)
Nicola Bellomo (2 February 1881 in Bari, Apulia, Italy – 11 September 1945 on the island of Nisida, Naples, Italy) was a general in the Italian Army during World War II. He was tried for war crimes by a British military court for the murder of a British prisoner of war. Bellomo was found guilty and sentenced to death by firing squad. He was one of the few Italian commissioned officers prosecuted for war crimes during World War II, and the only one to be executed by a British-controlled court. Career Military service Bellomo was a career officer in the Italian Army from the regular class of the Italian Military Academy of Modena. At the outbreak of World War I, he held the rank of Artillery Captain, and during that war, he was awarded his first Italian Silver Medal of Military Valor for gallantry in action. He gave up active duty in 1936, but was reactivated in 1941, when he was assigned as commander of the XII MVSN Zone and Bari province. Shooting of prisoners On 30 Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. After high school, he spent six months as a reporter for ''The Kansas City Star'' before enlisting in the American Red Cross, Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front (World War I), Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded by shrapnel in 1918. In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the ''Toronto Star'' and was influenced by the modernist writers and artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Helbig
Joachim Helbig (10 September 1915 – 5 October 1985) was a German bomber pilot during World War II. He joined the Luftwaffe in 1936, and served almost all of his career with Demonstration Wing 1 (''Lehrgeschwader'' 1 (LG 1)). With his unit, he participated in the Invasion of Poland, the Norwegian Campaign, the Battles of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Britain in 1939–40. For his contributions in these campaigns, Helbig received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in late 1940. He was then transferred to the Mediterranean theatre where he bombed Malta, the British Mediterranean Fleet and flew in support of the Afrika Korps. Helbig received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords in late 1942 for the support of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's 1942 summer offensive. He was then banned from further combat flying and was assigned to the staff of the General of Bombers, the senior officer responsible for the Luftwaffe's bomber force. In August 1943 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Gause
Ernst Max Alfred Gause (14 February 1896 – 30 September 1967) was a German Generalleutnant during World War II. He had served under prominent commanders as Erwin Rommel and Albert Kesselring. Early life and career Gause was the younger brother of Fritz Gause. Entering army service on 14 March 1914, he served as Fahnenjunker in the 18th Pioneer-battalion throughout the World War I, First World War, and was awarded both the Iron Cross, both Second and First Class. Gause's unit marched with the 1st Army and mostly participated on the Western Front, including engagements in the Battle of Verdun from 21 February to 18 July 1916 and battle near Soissons and Reims from 18 to 25 April 1918, continued with operations in Veste and the last movement on 10 October 1918. He was first promoted Fähnrich on 5 October 1914, and to Leutnant on 3 January 1915. In the first six months of 1918 he was detached to the infantry-school Lockstedter Lager and pioneer-school I at Jemmont. He became batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Ferrarin
Arturo Ferrarin (13 February 1895 – 18 July 1941) was an Italian pioneer aviator. His exploits included winning the "Rome-Tokyo Raid" air race in 1920 and a non-stop flight from Italy to Brazil in 1928 with fellow aviator Carlo Del Prete. The latter flight set the world distance record for a non-stop flight. Ferrarin, who was born in Thiene and was a decorated veteran of the Regia Aeronautica, Italian Royal Air Force during World War I, died in a plane crash at Guidonia Montecelio in 1941. Early life Ferrarin was born in Thiene in the Province of Vicenza to Maria (''née'' Ciscato) and Antonio Ferrarin, a textiles industrialist. He initially studied classics at the Liceo Foscarini in Venice, but his preference for technical subjects led him to withdraw from the Liceo (Italian school), liceo and finish his studies at the in Vicenza. After completing his course there in 1915, he served as a machine gunner in the Corpo Aeronautico Militare, Italian Military Air Corps and qualified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Evans (Royal Navy Officer)
Vice-Admiral Sir Alfred Englefield Evans (30 January 1884 — 29 December 1944) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer. In the Royal Navy, he served with distinction in the First World War and eventually rose to the rank of vice-admiral. Having retired just before the Second World War, Evans returned to service and became head of the Naval Technical Service in Ottawa. As a cricketer, he played first-class cricket predominantly for the Royal Navy and Hampshire. He was killed when the Avro 691 Lancastrian he was returning to the United Kingdom aboard crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Early and family life Evans was born in South Africa, the second son of Dr. E. W. Evans. He spent his formative years in South Africa before the family returned to England, where he was educated at Horris Hill School (which had been founded by his uncle Alfred Evans). From a cricketing family, both of his brother's, Dudley and William, played first-class cricket, as did his cous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark W
Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1928 * Finnish markka (), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Polish mark (), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cervi Brothers
The Cervi Brothers (Italian: ''Fratelli Cervi'') were the seven sons of Alcide Cervi (1875–1970) and Genoeffa Cocconi (1876–1944), born in Campegine, Emilia-Romagna. The brothers and their father became renowned for their activities in the organized resistance to Italian fascism. After the Italian Social Republic was founded by Benito Mussolini in the north of Italy, the brothers were among many members of the Italian resistance movement that suffered a crackdown by the fascist authorities. In November 1943, their house was surrounded by military forces and they surrendered after running out of ammunition during the ensuing firefight. They were taken to prison in the nearby city of Reggio Emilia along with their father. In December, a fascist secretary was killed by a lone gunman in Bagnolo in Piano. In retaliation, all seven Cervi brothers, along with Quarto Camurri, were taken to the shooting range in Reggio Emilia and shot. Alcide Cervi, who was suffering from bad he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Cafiero
Federico Cafiero (24 May 1914 – 7 May 1980) was an Italian mathematician known for his contributions in real analysis, measure theory, measure and Integral (mathematics), integration theory, and in the theory of ordinary differential equations. In particular, generalizing the Vitali convergence theorem, the Fichera convergence theorem and previous results of Vladimir Mikhailovich Dubrovskii, he proved a necessary and sufficient condition for the passage to the Limit (mathematics), limit under the sign of Integral (mathematics), integral: this result is, in some sense, definitive. In the field of ordinary differential equations, he studied existence and uniqueness problems under very general hypotheses for the left member of the given first-order equation, developing an important approximation method and proving a fundamental uniqueness theorem. Life and academic career Cafiero was born in Riposto, Province of Catania, on May 24, 1914. He obtained his Laurea in mathematics, cum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
