Name of Object:

Italian military conscription office in Tunis

Location:

Livorno, Italy

Holding Institution:

State Archives of Livorno

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Holding Institution (original language):

Archivio di Stato di Livorno

Date of Object:

No date [early 1920s?]

Description:

Under terms of an 1896 agreement with France, Italy ran a military conscription office in Tunis. It was through this office that Italy drafted its migrants in Tunisia for the war on Turkey in 1911-12 and for the First World War. During WWI, many Italians living in Tunisia, because of their knowledge of the French language. were assigned to the military units posted in France. Many of them died or were crippled for life. After the war, the Italian government opened a War Pensions Bureau in Tunis.

Type of Object

Photograph

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

ASLi, Famiglia Moreno di Tunisi, b. 15

Citation of this web page:

Massimo Sanacore "Italian military conscription office in Tunis" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;113;en

Prepared by: Massimo Sanacore
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 113