A Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Young Men Newly Listed maker marked "BW"

maker marked "BW"

a Hamburg Hansa War Cross ribbon with swords

from silvered brass

Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland Restored)

Fortin embarked for England on October 3

A Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Young Men Newly Listed maker marked "BW"Silver with blue enamels, marked "800" (silver) on the reverse, 39. 5 mm, original ribbon, intact enamels, 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