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The Boys of '99...

La morte

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The Boys of '99 sent on November 04, 2020 (0:07) by Emmegiu. 53 comments, 1802 views. [retina]

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I Ragazzi del '99 “Durante la prima guerra mondiale, ragazzi del '99 era la denominazione data ai coscritti negli elenchi di leva che nel 1917 compivano diciotto anni e che pertanto potevano essere impiegati sul campo di battaglia. Furono precettati quando non avevano ancora compiuto diciotto anni. I primi contingenti italiani, 80 000 circa, furono chiamati nei primi quattro mesi del 1917, e frettolosamente istruiti, vennero inquadrati in battaglioni di milizia territoriale. Alla fine di maggio furono chiamati altri 180 000 ed altri ancora, nel mese di luglio. I primi ragazzi del 1899 furono inviati al fronte nel novembre del 1917, nei giorni successivi alla battaglia di Caporetto. Il loro apporto, si dimostrò fondamentale per gli esiti della guerra. Le giovanissime reclute appena diciottenni del 1899 sono da ricordare in quanto nella prima guerra mondiale, dopo la battaglia di Caporetto (24 ottobre 1917), in un momento di gravissima crisi per l'Italia e per il Regio Esercito, rinsaldarono le file sul Piave, del Grappa e del Montello, permettendo al Regno la controffensiva nel 1918 a un anno esatto da Caporetto con la battaglia di Vittorio Veneto e quindi la firma dell'armistizio di Villa Giusti da parte dell'Austria-Ungheria. Scendendo nel dettaglio e parlando della mia regione, la Prima Guerra Mondiale costò alla Sardegna lutti e desolazione di maggior portata rispetto alle altre regioni italiane. Su 800.000 abitanti circa 100.000 uomini (quasi tutta la popolazione maschile adulta) partirono per la guerra, un'intera “leva” fu precettata quella del 1899 e fu spazzata via in buona parte. Die Roten Teufel, I diavoli rossi, chiamavano gli austriaci i soldati sardi. “Diavoli” per la loro fama di coraggio e anche di ferocia: in gran parte pastori, andavano all'assalto urlando e molti al posto della baionetta sul fucile montavano i coltelli per sgozzare le pecore, avevano fama di non fare prigionieri da pastori uccidevano il nemico facendo quello che sapevano fare come fossero le loro pecore. E li chiamavano “Rossi” per le mostrine bianche e rosse, e anche per il terriccio del Carso che aveva impregnato le loro divise. Diavoli crudeli, ma erano solo ragazzi terrorizzati imbottiti di acquavite mandati come fiere all'assalto per conquistare pochi centimetri di terra alla loro patria, ma quale patria erano pastori e contadini che non sapevano una parola d'italiano e che il continente non l'avevano mai visto in vita loro ma ci morirono. Molti soldati sardi erano inquadrati, nella brigata “Sassari” che caso unico in Italia era costituita da soldati provenienti dalla stessa regione. La Brigata Sassari durante la Grande Guerra ottenne il record di decorazioni nel Regio esercito. ma perse più di 13.000 uomini e visto che una brigata inquadrava circa 6 mila soldati, venne ricostituita due volte. Mio nonno ne faceva parte fu ferito gravemente e fu l'unico superstite di un assalto ove morirono tutti i 350 suoi commilitoni, fu ritrovato sotto montagne di cadaveri agonizzante, ma si salvò e portò nella spalla la pallottola tutta la vita, comunque fu decorato con croce di guerra, in seguito nella seconda guerra mondiale perse un figlio radiotelegrafista in un cacciatorpediniere. La foto è ricavata da una Lastra a Gelatina Bromuro d'Argento del 1917 molto rovinata.



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sent on November 04, 2020 (22:02) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Poignant and melancholy caption... instil infinite sadness and unfortunately absolute certainty that it will not be the first in the last ...... man is born evil ..... and in his soul..... Regarding your work I can only congratulate you ..... you managed to recover a shot that would otherwise be lost forever. As big as ever with your thoughts and words to embrace everyone. Hello Rosario :-P

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sent on November 04, 2020 (22:13) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)


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sent on November 05, 2020 (0:30) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

[QUOTAS] Today is The Day of National Unity and the Armed Forces is an Italian national day of celebration. It was established in 1919 to commemorate Italy's victory in World War I, a war event considered to be the completion of the process of Risorgimento unification. The festival is November 4 because it is the date of the entry into force of the armistice of Villa Giusti (signed on November 3, 1918) and the surrender of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. [/QUOTAS]
E on the day of victory, the protocols were wasted, the words pronounced a copy /paste and here on November 4, 2020 part of Italy is in controlled/supervised lockdown.
A defeat announced.
Wonder what they're going to think from up there.

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sent on November 05, 2020 (8:17) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Hi Emme! I come back after an absence due to an atomic concentration of losers, all resolved.
My grandfather was a 99-year-old boy. At 16 at the front.
During an assault, he refused to walk out of the trenches and the officer pointed the gun at his head.
they gave those few minutes and then realized they were the only two left alive.
They fled together: my grandfather and that idiot with the gun.

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sent on November 05, 2020 (8:37) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Good morning Luca and everyone, beautiful your testimony, thank you for telling us about it went to the massacre and few remained alive your grandfather did the right thing that saved his life less bad if not we would not have had among us his nice nephew, a dear greeting I am glad that you have solved make yourself heard more often that I am pleased

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sent on November 05, 2020 (11:26) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

An extraordinary memory.
A greeting to you Joseph and honor to his grandfather who miraculously escaped death and you miraculously ...
you were born ;-)
The world really wanted you!!!
Ioo a very dear greeting.
Alessandro

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sent on November 05, 2020 (11:32) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Nice memory, in honor of these guys on all fronts 8-) I share your reflection and also that of Delphinus: "absolutely useless", even if "this is man" :-/
Ajòooo, Charles

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sent on November 05, 2020 (15:41) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Great digitization of a historical photo with great caption!

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sent on November 05, 2020 (17:58) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Beautiful historical image, my grandfather had enlisted at a very young age falsifying the documents and had participated in the African War (Italian-Turkish), and in the First World War at only twenty years old, he was awarded the silver medal at the value, reading the motivation it was understood that he deserved the gold medal and he smiling said "But I am not dead".... other times we now fight with a sneaky and invisible enemy.
A dear greeting Joseph

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sent on November 05, 2020 (18:37) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

You were right to offer us the Italian beech. The Sassari brigade made up of brave and tenacious young people is the most illustrious example of this. My grandfather was one of these guys who from the deep South went to fight in distant and unknown places.
A dear greeting Joseph :-)

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sent on November 05, 2020 (22:07) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

thank you joseph.
ciao.

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sent on November 05, 2020 (22:15) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

As a young boy I met several veterans of '99. A man named Mariano often recounted events lived in that war and the different places he saw as a soldier.
When someone died, the thing that impressed me the most was to see the dead papers with the words "Cavaliere di Vittorio Veneto" that stood in the foreground.
My wife's grandmother was from '99 and told her and her other grandchildren what a terrible misfortune the Spaniard was.
Onore to your grandfather and all those young boys who dedicated their lives to their homeland and congratulations to you for yet another photographic proposition that is meaningful.
A dear greeting.

avatarjunior
sent on November 06, 2020 (0:07) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

On the Austro-Hungarian front they spoke 9 different languages... in ours, they spoke Italian with all our dialects..

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sent on November 06, 2020 (17:27) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Top

avatarsenior
sent on November 07, 2020 (10:38) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

How much pain and even more so when all this immense sacrifice is forgotten!
I'm moved.... Thank you!

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sent on November 07, 2020 (22:18) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Bravo Giuseppe for this important document

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sent on November 07, 2020 (22:45) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thank you Giuseppe, to tell the story of your grandfather and those guys at war. Greetings

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sent on November 08, 2020 (19:36) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I read the caption with great interest, today I was in the mountains where above 2000meters I found trenches and constructions made of stones dating back to the first war, incredible jobs at those heights, poor boys, how many must have seen

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sent on November 08, 2020 (21:04) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

My grandfather told me about extreme conditions, he came from a seaside town in Sardinia where the cold does not exist and being at 20 degrees below zero and more ill equipped for him was terrible, then he was full of lice that when you washed your clothes and stretched them they remained straight full of lice, for eating you do not talk about it and in addition the terror of dying every day in short he will then also be a miner but those years have tried it a lot

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sent on November 09, 2020 (17:49) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Honor in any case to those who fought for the homeland, perhaps hoped for a better Italy. Unfortunately, however, this did not happen. Hi Giuse congratulations from Gaz.




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