An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Boys Newly Listed 1961 and re-engaged for two

1961 and re-engaged for two years' service two days later

DANNER MURLHAUSEN THUR" on the reverse

scroll Canada with additional six years service bar (C

besides 15 machine guns and a couple of cannon

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (Onb) Cross Of Merit For Boys Newly Listed 1961 and re-engaged for twoSilver with blue enamels, marked "800" (silver) on the reverse, 36. 5 mm, original ribbon, small chip evident in the blue enamels on the bottom point of the star, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning between 1926 and 1937, when it was absorbed into the Giovent Italiana del Littorio (GIL), a youth section of the National Fascist Party. It takes its name from Balilla, the