WW1 ITALIAN MEDAL ORDER OF VITTORIO VENETO MEDAL AWARD

Offered is an original Order of Vittorio Veneto, with award ribbon. Order of Vittorio Veneto was founded as national order in 1968, “to express the gratitude of the nation” to those decorated with the Medal and Cross of War for Military Valour (Medaglia e Croce di Guerra al Valor Militare) who had fought for at least six months in World War I and earlier conflicts. With the death of the last surviving Knights of Vittorio Veneto in 2008, the order fell into abeyance and, in 2008, it was formally wound-up by repeal of the original legislation.