Hospital Supply Station, Gondar, 1941.
My late father-in-law, Salvatore, was a medical officer during the outbreak of WW II. He was stationed in (Abyssinia) Ethiopia. Soon after this photo was taken, my father-in-law was captured by the British and spent three years in a prison camp in the desert in Africa.
As a medic, he was very busy, apart from battle wounds, the majority of Italian soldiers actually died from illness.
The Italian troops were poorly armed and unprepared for the wars they were sent to fight.
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