European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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Then they had to set up a dispatch-carriers unit,
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and I was the only one assigned to Reggio, at the local headquarters.
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I was told to go see a group of men I already knew. There was Grandi, a lawyer, Piccinini, an architect, and the Count Calvi.
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They were six initially, then Mattia told me that one was killed.
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Still, at the beginning there were these six antifascists who were in charge of things in Reggio.
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I had to go home to my mother’s and uncles’ house. They were staying in Davoli’s house,
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or I should rather say Kiss, the one in charge of the dispatch-riders, who had set up quite a few things.
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