The Abyssinian Campaigns

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Fabulous individual....thanks for the post.

The Guillets couldn"t live in Italy, as Amedeo would have had no peace in his retirement. 'I"d be invited here and have to go there, and be sent on official business - we would have had no time to ourselves,' he recalled.

This is not exaggerated boasting on Amedeo Guillet"s behalf, for the man known around Kentstown as 'Ambassador" is, in fact, Italy"s most decorated war hero. A 1993 biography published in Italy had to be reprinted seven times, while a second biography was published here and in Britain in 2003
http://www.meathchronicle.ie/articles/1/35973 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/26/humanities.highereducation

 

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(ABYSSINIA - ITALIAN TROOPS) video newsreel film
Unused / unissued material - no paperwork - dates unclear or unknown
Abyssinia / Ethiopia.

Shots around Italian army camp in Abyssinia. Lots of tents and camels. Camel train carrying equipment. Troops moving forwards, as if under fire, with guns. A plane circles overhead. More dark shots of troops moving on foot. Shots of Ethiopian tribesmen.

Italian troops move on foot across country. Local people pay their regards to the invading forces. Shots of the troops crossing river. Shot of an abandoned Post truck. Local people look on as the troops go by. An Italian flag is carried by troops on horseback. Local people sing and dance.

Local people come to meet Italian troops in village centre.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=50252