Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Buy Now These part time soldiers would

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

extremely fine and very scarce

1919 and was discharged upon demobilization from the 3rd Battalion

A Dutch Volunteer Home Guards Merit Medal - In silvered bronze

Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Buy Now These part time soldiers wouldSilver, 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