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S.U., della provincia di Ferrara, anni 25, celibe, analfabeta, incensurato, contadino; Z.E., della provincia di Rovigo, anni 25, celibe, analfabeta, incensurato, falegname; B.G., della provincia di Ferrara, anni 24, ammogliato, analfabeta, incensurato, contadino; tutti soldati del 27° fanteria; condannati alla pena di morte col mezzo della fucilazione alla schiena per diserzione in presenza del nemico.
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S.U., from the province of Ferrara, age 25, unmarried, illiterate, no criminal record, peasant; Z.E., from the province of Rovigo, age 25, unmarried, illiterate, no criminal record, carpenter; B.G., from the province of Ferrara, age 24, married, illiterate, no criminal record, peasant; all soldiers in the 27th infantry; sentenced to execution by firing squad to be shot in the back for desertion in the presence of the enemy. Court-martial of 6th Army Corps. (Corno di Rosazzo, 28 November 1915). On 13 November 1915, the soldiers S.U., Z.E., B.G. (…) whilst marching during a military operation in the Oslavia area took refuge in a cellar of premises occupied by the command of the Lombardy brigade where they were discovered around 5 pm of the same 13th day during an inspection of the said areas carried out by the Carabiniere Marshal B.G. The accused jointly admitted such circumstances though B. claimed to have sought shelter in the building in Pri-Fabrisu and taken refuge there together with soldiers S. and Z. on authorisation received from Lieutenant T. when the 8th company had lost contact with the rest of the regiment and in order to shelter from the rain; the other two instead claimed they had lost contact with their company and as a result and without authorisation had sought shelter (…). Such presumed circumstances besides finding no truthfulness in their striking contradictions (…), are also contradicted by the fact that the colonel in command of the regiment (…) denied that the company commander had given the order (…) to take shelter and states that Lieutenant T. gave no authorisation to the three soldiers to shelter in the building (…). Besides it is absurd to suppose that contact could have been lost at 8 in the morning, the time at which the judicable declared to the Carabinieri that their unit had passed by the place in which they were accused of sheltering, even more so when it is considered that they were marching in a known direction and the distance to be covered was no more than a kilometre from the trenches they were to reach. And even if it were true that the company to which the judicable belonged had lost contact with the rest of the units, it has nevertheless been ascertained that they took absence from the company without authorisation and without a justifiable motive. The circumstances which preceded and accompanied the offences most certainly prove that the accused in the act they committed of taking absence from the ranks were indeed
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