Dabormida

Brigadiers Dabormida and Arimondi were amongst the dead.

Cut off from the remainder of the Italian Army, Dabormida began a fighting retreat towards friendly positions.

Dabormida's remains were never found, although his brother learned from an old woman living in the area that she had given water to a mortally wounded Italian officer, "a chief, a great man with spectacles and a watch, and golden stars".

Vittorio Dabormida); **3rd Africa Infantry Regiment, Italian national units, formed for service in the colonies with personnel drawn from the regular infantry regiments of the Army.