An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction 1917 to the end of

1917 to the end of the war

The son of James and Rose Treadwell

kept with his Wehrpass & Divisional records

then returned to the 156th Infantry Battalion ten weeks later

one clasp: Coomassie

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction 1917 to the end ofItaly : Silver, maker marked "S. JOHNSON MILANO" on the reverse, 38 mm, vertical pinback, dark patina, 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