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Francia, 1917. Una tavola di Achille Beltrame raffigura l’ennesimo successo musicale della Banda dell’Arma ritornata sul suolo francese.
France, 1917. A panel painting by Achille Beltrame portrays another musical success of the Carabinieri Corps Band that returned to France.

The Carabinieri abroad
Carabinieri abroad

n all fronts. The Carabinieri followed the army contingents on all the fronts of World War I, even abroad:
in Albania, throughout the conflict, thus ensuring the control of the Port of Vlora and of the Strait of Otran-
O to; in France in 1918, following an Italian Army expeditionary force; in Thessaloniki, Greece, and in Mac-
edonia alongside the other Allied forces engaged on the Balkan front. In 1917, a contingent of 100 Carabinieri
and 300 Bersaglieri joined the British expeditionary force in Palestine with the aim to occupy the lands of the Ot-
toman Empire. After the end of the military operations, 30 Carabinieri of the Italian Carabinieri Detachment of
Jerusalem remained in Palestine until March 1921, where they pro-
vided security services at the Italian Consulate and served as guards
of honor at the Holy Sepulchre.
Major Cosma manera and the searCh in russia for the Cap-
tives from the so-Called “irredenti” territories of italy. Be-
tween 1917 and 1919, Major Cosma Manera played a key role in
tracking down and bringing back to Italy the Austro-Hungarian
Army soldiers from the irredenti territories of Italy, who were held as
prisoners of war by the Russians on the Eastern front. Manera led
approximately 4,800 men from Siberia to Vladivostok in Russia, and
from there to China, as he formed the “Legione redenta”, a combat
unit safeguarding the national interests in that geographical area.
the tours s of the marChing band. Upon its return from the front,
where it had accompanied the war flag and the mobile Carabinie-
ri Regiment, the Carabinieri marching band toured in France and
Great Britain, giving public concerts and benefit concerts in favour
of wounded Allied soldiers, and representing, through its wide rep-
ertoire, the traditions and customs of our country. The first concert,
in which it performed alongside two other Allied military bands, was
held in Paris on 24 April 1916.
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