Name of Object:

In Tunis, the families of the Italian men drafted for the war waiting to get their daily allowance from the Italian government

Name in original language:

Sussidi governativi. Il pagamento del soccorso giornaliero alle famiglie dei richiamati

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:

1915–18

Description:

According to a booklet published in 1917 by the Tunisian branch of the Dante Alighieri Society and quoted by historian Adriano Salmieri (see his contribution to the volume Mestieri e professioni degli italiani di Tunisia – Métiers et professions des Italiens de Tunisie, a cura di S. Finzi, Tunisi: Finzi, 2003), by the end of April 1917 11,146 Italians in Tunisia had been drafted for the war, and 700 had died. According to the same source, in 1917 in Tunisia the Italian government was paying daily allowances to almost 5,000 destitute families of drafted soldiers.

Type of Object

Photo from a book

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

La colonia italiana di Tunisi durante la guerra 1915-1917, Tunisi, 1917. ASLi, Famiglia Moreno di Tunisi, b. 8.

Citation of this web page:

Massimo Sanacore, Giulia Barrera "In Tunis, the families of the Italian men drafted for the war waiting to get their daily allowance from the Italian government" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;114;en

Prepared by: Massimo Sanacore, Giulia Barrera
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 114