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Battle-name; first activities as a dispatch-rider
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As for myself, I was a dispatch-carrier.
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I would always move around, from Reggio to Secchio.
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My parents often asked me to go to the mountains, so some boys eventually told me:
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“If you go to the mountains, you could take us there with you”.
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Every now and then I would take some of them first to one place, then to another, until they would join a partisan unit.
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I would often go to Don Carlo, who was also a partisan, and would leave these boys with him.
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Then there were the Davoli brothers. Kiss was the commander of the dispatch-carriers.
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He was from Reggio, and he was the landlord of the house where my mother was born.
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Then one day he told my mother he had to go to the mountains.
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He told her he would come to our house and then from there he would head uphill, so my mother replied that I could take him.
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He came from a family with money, lots of it.
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We went to the mountains together and then he reached the Central Headquarters.
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There he met Gordon and some other “special” boys, so Don Carlo suggested they could join the English unit.
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At that time paratroopers were starting to be dropped in the area,
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and they had set up the English command with radio transmitters in Secchio.
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They asked the Central Headquarters to provide them with around 25 skilled partisans,
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who had been there for a while and were well trained.
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You have to realise that at the beginning there were all sorts of people in the mountains,
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but the English only wanted experienced men, so 25 partisans were chosen to join them.
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