Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge GTRexclude it was noted that Hughes

it was noted that Hughes was "a fine looking well built veteran of two wars who

1896 in Straubling an der Donau and lived in Augsburg

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marked "935" (silver)

Italy. A Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge GTRexclude it was noted that HughesSilver, 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