French soldier hands off a Chinese infant to other soldiers in the French Concession Shanghai, 1937

Refugee

Members of the Paris Resistance, mainly policemen (in dark uniform) appear to take cover from snipers behind a civilian motor car in front of the façade of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris.  The location is not improbable; The Isle de la Cité and contiguous Left Bank were the scene of a fair bit of fighting during the Paris uprising.  This photo is a little odd, however, as a French Army film crew appears to be in attendance.  An immediate post-Liberation reconstruction, perhaps ?  Best regards, JR.

Taking cover, Paris, 1944.

Born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1907 and dead in Varese (Italy) in 2001. After his military service performed in Italy in 1929 , he continued his studies in law and became a lawyer.

Jewish, Camerini in 1938 emigrated to France to escape the Fascist racial laws , and in September 1939 , in Paris , with the outbreak of World War II , he enlisted in the Foreign Legion . On 1 March 1940 he was promoted to second lieutenant and posted to the 13th DB with which he fought in Norway. On June 18, in England he joined the Free French Forces under the pseudonym of Clarence . In September 1940 he participated in the expedition to Dakar.

Promoted to lieutenant in 1941 , he took part in the campaign and Eritrea , fighting against Italian troops , and he was wounded in the taking of Massawa on 8 April 1941. He fought in Syria , then in the Battles of Bir Hakeim and El Alamein and in Tunisia . During the Italian campaign was wounded on May 8, 1944 in Pontecorvo and later in Radicofani . Promoted captain, he was seconded to the French embassy in Rome, but October 12, 1945 , in Paris , was dismissed. On his return to Italy he became attorney of the Court of Appeal of Milan and the of the Court of Cassation. DVX


Eritrea 1941 command post of the Foreign Legion . Fourth from left Lieutenant Gustavo Camerini and fifth captain Dimitri Amilakhvari .
He was among the 1,038 personalities awarded with the prestigious honor of the Order of Liberation , established in 1940 by Charles de Gaulle in Brazzaville . It was also decorated Commander of the Legion of Honour , Companion of the Liberation War Cross 1939-1945 ( France ) , Colonial Medal , Wound Medal , Medal of the east , Order of Sant ' Olaf (Norway) and Croix de Guerre ( Norway).