Damian Valle
@damianvalle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Practice, MA in MilHis, volunteer archivist, and sporadic podcaster #RegioEsercito and #WarInItaly 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇮🇹
If you build a sand castle with the kids, you are a great dad. If you explain to them the advantages of the Italian trace, you are just weird...
#MilitaryArchitecture #MilHis
#MilitaryArchitecture #MilHis
August 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
If you build a sand castle with the kids, you are a great dad. If you explain to them the advantages of the Italian trace, you are just weird...
#MilitaryArchitecture #MilHis
#MilitaryArchitecture #MilHis
#OTD in 1944, 59 Italian prisoners were killed by Nazi troops in retaliation for a partisan attack days earlier. S. Engel, the Nazi commander, never paid for the Turchino Massacre, as all extradition attempts were blocked. #WarInItaly #Partigiani
May 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
#OTD in 1944, 59 Italian prisoners were killed by Nazi troops in retaliation for a partisan attack days earlier. S. Engel, the Nazi commander, never paid for the Turchino Massacre, as all extradition attempts were blocked. #WarInItaly #Partigiani
International Workers' Day!
Italians celebrating the "Festa dei Lavoratori" in 1946. Notice the sign on the left that says, "Give jobs to our veterans." Between 1945 and 1947, more than a million Italian POWs returned to a country already facing 2 million unemployed.
Italians celebrating the "Festa dei Lavoratori" in 1946. Notice the sign on the left that says, "Give jobs to our veterans." Between 1945 and 1947, more than a million Italian POWs returned to a country already facing 2 million unemployed.
May 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
International Workers' Day!
Italians celebrating the "Festa dei Lavoratori" in 1946. Notice the sign on the left that says, "Give jobs to our veterans." Between 1945 and 1947, more than a million Italian POWs returned to a country already facing 2 million unemployed.
Italians celebrating the "Festa dei Lavoratori" in 1946. Notice the sign on the left that says, "Give jobs to our veterans." Between 1945 and 1947, more than a million Italian POWs returned to a country already facing 2 million unemployed.
Bunker created to defend Fuerteventura against a possible Allied invasion (Operation Pilgrim - Puma, 1941), now repurposed as viewpoint
April 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Bunker created to defend Fuerteventura against a possible Allied invasion (Operation Pilgrim - Puma, 1941), now repurposed as viewpoint
Buon Natale - Merry Christmas.
1911-12 Postcard depicting Bersaglieri in Libia during the Italo-Turkish War
1911-12 Postcard depicting Bersaglieri in Libia during the Italo-Turkish War
December 24, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Buon Natale - Merry Christmas.
1911-12 Postcard depicting Bersaglieri in Libia during the Italo-Turkish War
1911-12 Postcard depicting Bersaglieri in Libia during the Italo-Turkish War
The entrance to the Archivio di Stato may not look as cool as the National Archives but the surroundings and the interior are breathtaking...no swans though 🦢
#RegioEsercito
#RegioEsercito
December 20, 2024 at 8:07 PM
The entrance to the Archivio di Stato may not look as cool as the National Archives but the surroundings and the interior are breathtaking...no swans though 🦢
#RegioEsercito
#RegioEsercito
#MuleMonday Refugees escaping the Fascist advance towards Málaga. 6-7 Feb 1937. A naval bombardment killed 3-5k civilians. From the book "The crime on the road Málaga-Almeria" by Dr Norman Bethune, who went to Spain to create a blood transfusion unit to aid the Republican soldiers. #SCW
December 16, 2024 at 5:37 PM
#MuleMonday Refugees escaping the Fascist advance towards Málaga. 6-7 Feb 1937. A naval bombardment killed 3-5k civilians. From the book "The crime on the road Málaga-Almeria" by Dr Norman Bethune, who went to Spain to create a blood transfusion unit to aid the Republican soldiers. #SCW
#MuleMonday I was lucky enough to see some mules at work in the rugged hills of southern Spain over the weekend.
November 25, 2024 at 1:21 PM
#MuleMonday I was lucky enough to see some mules at work in the rugged hills of southern Spain over the weekend.
Would you like to know more about the Spanish Republicans who helped liberate Paris? Are you curious about their odyssey from the African deserts to the shores of France? Join us tomorrow at 19:00 (GMT)!
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November 20, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Would you like to know more about the Spanish Republicans who helped liberate Paris? Are you curious about their odyssey from the African deserts to the shores of France? Join us tomorrow at 19:00 (GMT)!
www.youtube.com/live/CLk2OPg...
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Soldiers of the International Brigades and their horses during the Spanish Civil War. 📷 by Elkan Vera. #WarHorseWednesday IWM: HU 71523
November 20, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Soldiers of the International Brigades and their horses during the Spanish Civil War. 📷 by Elkan Vera. #WarHorseWednesday IWM: HU 71523
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The death of Franco was announced #OTD in 1975. I cannot help but think of those #ContinuingtheFight against fascism & the Spanish Ex-Servicemen’s Association who only a month prior held a silent march down #Whitehall & layed a wreath at the #Cenotaph. I stood at that spot today.
November 20, 2024 at 5:36 PM
The death of Franco was announced #OTD in 1975. I cannot help but think of those #ContinuingtheFight against fascism & the Spanish Ex-Servicemen’s Association who only a month prior held a silent march down #Whitehall & layed a wreath at the #Cenotaph. I stood at that spot today.
Reposted by Damian Valle
Today in 1944, a British soldier serving with the Eighth Army carrier pigeon service in Italy removes a message from a pigeon at a mobile loft. An original wartime colour image by Captain Alfred Tanner.
Photo: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Photo: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 20, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Today in 1944, a British soldier serving with the Eighth Army carrier pigeon service in Italy removes a message from a pigeon at a mobile loft. An original wartime colour image by Captain Alfred Tanner.
Photo: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Photo: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Reposted by Damian Valle
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November 20, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Help me expand this list by commenting so we can find our people! #AnimalStudies #AnimalHistory
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3 November 1919 | An Italian Jewish woman, Frida Misul, was born in Livorno. A Singer.
In Auschwitz from 16 May 1944.
No. A-5483
She was liberated in Theresienstadt.
She passed away in 1992.
In Auschwitz from 16 May 1944.
No. A-5483
She was liberated in Theresienstadt.
She passed away in 1992.
November 3, 2024 at 9:00 AM
3 November 1919 | An Italian Jewish woman, Frida Misul, was born in Livorno. A Singer.
In Auschwitz from 16 May 1944.
No. A-5483
She was liberated in Theresienstadt.
She passed away in 1992.
In Auschwitz from 16 May 1944.
No. A-5483
She was liberated in Theresienstadt.
She passed away in 1992.
Reposted by Damian Valle
🚨Reminder🚨
The Western Front Association’s PhD Grant Scheme is open for 2024!
Grants of up to £2,000 for those researching The Great War as part of their PhD.
As long as the thesis has a significant First World War element we are interested.
NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS!
#fwwhist
The Western Front Association’s PhD Grant Scheme is open for 2024!
Grants of up to £2,000 for those researching The Great War as part of their PhD.
As long as the thesis has a significant First World War element we are interested.
NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS!
#fwwhist
October 11, 2024 at 1:25 PM
🚨Reminder🚨
The Western Front Association’s PhD Grant Scheme is open for 2024!
Grants of up to £2,000 for those researching The Great War as part of their PhD.
As long as the thesis has a significant First World War element we are interested.
NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS!
#fwwhist
The Western Front Association’s PhD Grant Scheme is open for 2024!
Grants of up to £2,000 for those researching The Great War as part of their PhD.
As long as the thesis has a significant First World War element we are interested.
NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS!
#fwwhist
#OTD in 1944, partisan and medical student Giovanni Palmieri was executed by SS troops. After 3 days of combats, instead of retreating, he stayed behind to look after the wounded partisans. He was captured and kept alive so he could treat the wounded SS, and then they killed him. #WarInItaly
September 30, 2024 at 5:59 PM
#OTD in 1944, partisan and medical student Giovanni Palmieri was executed by SS troops. After 3 days of combats, instead of retreating, he stayed behind to look after the wounded partisans. He was captured and kept alive so he could treat the wounded SS, and then they killed him. #WarInItaly
Today, an unexpected gift from a tutee reminded me how small gestures can have the deepest impact. Grateful for the opportunity to make a difference
#VeterinaryEducation #VetEd
#ManyTanks
#VeterinaryEducation #VetEd
#ManyTanks
September 4, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Today, an unexpected gift from a tutee reminded me how small gestures can have the deepest impact. Grateful for the opportunity to make a difference
#VeterinaryEducation #VetEd
#ManyTanks
#VeterinaryEducation #VetEd
#ManyTanks
I seldomly wear cufflinks but when I do...#Spitfire
August 30, 2024 at 7:57 AM
I seldomly wear cufflinks but when I do...#Spitfire
Yesterday, I received a book I ordered online. It turns out it belonged to one of my favorite authors, Richard Lamb. I've bought his book War in Italy three times—once for myself and twice for friends. It might be silly, but I feel like I won some sort of (nerdy) lottery. #MilHis
August 21, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Yesterday, I received a book I ordered online. It turns out it belonged to one of my favorite authors, Richard Lamb. I've bought his book War in Italy three times—once for myself and twice for friends. It might be silly, but I feel like I won some sort of (nerdy) lottery. #MilHis
#OTD in 1944 the Italian partisan Silvio Corbari was executed by nazi-fascist troops. Corbari was famous for his twisted sense of humour: in one occasion he distracted the attention of the local garrison using a bomb made of pasta and beans and he used to dress up as an ... 🧵1/2
August 18, 2024 at 1:50 PM
#OTD in 1944 the Italian partisan Silvio Corbari was executed by nazi-fascist troops. Corbari was famous for his twisted sense of humour: in one occasion he distracted the attention of the local garrison using a bomb made of pasta and beans and he used to dress up as an ... 🧵1/2
28.07.41 Mussolini inspects the troops of the 1st Legion of the Camice Nere in Mantova before their departure to the Russian Front. Very few will see Italy again. #WW2
July 29, 2024 at 5:03 PM
28.07.41 Mussolini inspects the troops of the 1st Legion of the Camice Nere in Mantova before their departure to the Russian Front. Very few will see Italy again. #WW2