An Italian Expedition To Albania Campaign Medal Auction Archive 2nd Regiment

2nd Regiment

which were forwarded to his widow

while later issues that are more common were produced during 1915-19 in gilded bronze

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An Italian Expedition To Albania Campaign Medal Auction Archive 2nd RegimentAn Italian Expedition to Albania Campaign Medal Type C, bronze, original ribbon, near mint. Footnote: The medal was instituted on 7 March 1940 to be awarded to military and civilian participants in the Italian occupation of Albania. By 1939 Italy dominated all aspects of Albania life but in the minds of Mussolini and Ciano, German triumphs in Austria and Czechoslovakia demanded an Italian response. This came in the form of the invasion of Albania by