Hello,
It all sounds fine with me. You'll just have to let me know how it should be done. Maybe there could be several catagories these cards could fall under, or one section of the forum just for postcards. In my opinion the Italians produced the best propaganda postcards of WWII. Since I've got about thirty differant colonial cards dealing with the Italo-Ethiopia War maybe we should load them all first and go from there. Or, does someone have a better idea?
James
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 3:19 am by FB |
| JLEES, you really are a postcard mine.
These here are really wondeful, thank you.
For instance your picture forum1.jpg
You are correct, it depicts the Battallions of the Division.
Not only: it also depicts the colours of the Btlns. Each Btln had its own colour(s). This colour was present on the Flag (as you can see in the postcard, every Flag has a different colour), around the Ascari belly (sort of a scarf) and on the "pon-pon" on their hat, wich was known as Tarbush. You have a good example of this in picture "forum2.jpg". Of this hat the Ascaris were particularly proud. During the thirties, when a new uniform was introduced, the Tarbush was eliminated, much to the desperation of the Ascaris, and subsituted with, IIRC, a turban.
But the Tarbush is really "The" Ascari hat.
Some of the Btlns were also known by the name of its Commander during one of the most enduring battles that they fought. For example the IV° Btln was known as Toselli, from his Commander, Maj Toselli, who lead it at the Amba Alagi.
Best Regards
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 6:15 am by JLEES |
| FB,
On the 1st Eritrea Division postcard. By the main officer there are four solid color flags numbers I, II, III and IV, are they the regimental flags? Then the others with the stripes, are they the battalion flags? If this is correct, since there are four regimental and eight battalion flags, there must have been two battalions in each of the Eritrea regiments.
What was the long pointed red hats called that had the pon-pon coming out of them?
James
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 6:18 am by JLEES |
| On postcard xi it just depicts a solid colored flag with the number I. Could this be the 1st Regiment Sovoia?
James
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 6:41 am by FB |
| Hi JLEES,
the red pointed hat is the Tarbush of which I wrote above. It was the typical Ascari hat. The pon pon, and the "scarf" (it had a name, but it escapes me at the moment) were of the same color of the Btln. Flag. You can see this very well in the first (starting from the top) of the two "forum2.jpg" pics, the one with the black and blue Flag, pon-pon and "scarf" and the lion (ambeisà) on the left bottom corner.
I'm not 100% shure but my best supposition would be that the Flags are all Btln Flags. I say this because, on my computer, the Flag with number IV (but I read VI, maybe the picture is inverted?), and the pon-pon of the Ascari holding it, is black and the colour of the IVth Battallion "Toselli" was indeed black.
I do not have my sources at hand right now, so I'm sorry for not being able to be more precise.
On a second thought, I think that "sash" is a better word than "scarf" to describe what the Ascaris wore around their belly.
Sorry about this.
Best regards
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:59 am by vzita |
| Please visit
http://users.libero.it/aparducci/page8.html
there are information on the colors of the eritrean colonial battalions. In particular way:
- "IV Battaglione Coloniale Toselli"
- "I Gruppo Squadroni Cavalleria Coloniale (Penne di Falco)"
- "Lo Squadrone Zaptiè di Manovra della Tripolitania"
and more
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