FIRST PICTURES OF THE KING OF ITALY - Archbishop Francesco Petronelli receiving the Silver Medal from the King. The Archbishop was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Merit in the field for his action in offering his life in place of 250 Italian hostage held by the Germans. The hostages were being held for suspected complicity with the British after a patrol of Phantoms had entered the town, shot 15 Germans and disappeared as mysteriously as they had arrived. The Germans believed that without the help of the civil population the manouvre could not possibly have been successful. Photographic n
FIRST PICTURES OF THE KING OF ITALY - Archbishop Francesco Petronelli receiving the Silver Medal from the King. The Archbishop was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Merit in the field for his action in offering his life in place of 250 Italian hostage held by the Germans. The hostages were being held for suspected complicity with the British after a patrol of Phantoms had entered the town, shot 15 Germans and disappeared as mysteriously as they had arrived. The Germans believed that without the help of the civil population the manouvre could not possibly have been successful. Photographic negative , British Army
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