GENERAL GIOVANNI MESSE

General Giovanni MESSE (1883-1968) Gen Messe participated as an officer in the war in Libya in 1912, the First World War and operations in Albania in 1920. He was adjutant of King Vittorio Emanuele III. He led the Cosseria Division in East Africa and in the war in Ethiopia, became the General of the Army Corps in 1939. In July 1941 Messe was given command of the CSIR (Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia) with which he undertook the advanced side of Germans between the river Dnieper and Don. In July 1942, the CSIR was framed within dell'ARMIR (Italian Army in Russia); Messe retained command of his troops until November 1942, when differences of opinion with the commander of the army, General Italo Gariboldi, led him to apply for repatriation. It was May 1943

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