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Amedeo Guillet | |
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![]() Amedeo Guillet in 1935 | |
Nickname(s) | Devil Commander |
Born | Piacenza, Kingdom of Italy | 7 February 1909
Died | 16 June 2010 Rome, Italy | (aged 101)
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Years of service | 1930–1945 |
Rank | Colonel |
Battles/wars | Second Italo-Abyssinian War Spanish Civil War World War II |
Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Italy |
Baron Amedeo Guillet (7 February 1909 – 16 June 2010) was an officer of the Italian Army and an Italian Diplomat. Dying at the age of 101, he was one of the last men to have commanded cavalry in war. He was nicknamed Devil Commander[1] and was famous during the Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia in 1941, 1942 and 1943 because of his courage.