Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Buy Now 1919 and was discharged upon

1919 and was discharged upon demobilization from the 3rd Battalion

and an envelope presumably sent to the recipient

suspended from hanger inscribed "1939"

These part time soldiers would have played an important role in the defence of the UK had the Germans invaded

Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Buy Now 1919 and was discharged uponSilver, marked "MODELLO DEPOSITATO RIPRODUZIONE INTERDETTA" on the reverse, 38 mm, vertical pinback, very light contact, extremely 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 youth section of the National Fascist Party. It takes its name from Balilla, the nickname of Giovan Battista Perasso, a Genoese