Hello Marco, many thanks for your reply and for your kind offer. I will certainly take you up on that if I need help. Please do go ahead and post the question on the Italian forums. That may be the best and quickest way to find Motta’s history. Kind regards, Simon ( [email]lannoy@btopenworld.com[/email] )

Done, as kindly requested… 🙂

I wish you all the best for this interesting research. Anyway, I suppose we need photos of the battle uniform and the documents, if possible, as well as his rank, and so on. Motta is quite common in Italy, as far as I know.

Thank you and, above all, merry Xmas to you and to all the users of this nice forum.