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Son Missing ' Since 1940 1 (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) J NICASTRO (Italy), , April 16. Every day for 22 years . Anna Rocca placed flowers ; on the Unknown Warrior’s ' tomb in memory of her sol- ■ dier son. [ Cesare Rocca went off to , the wars in 1936 as a mem- . ber of Mussolini's black-shirt troops in Ethiopia. His last letter was in June, 1940, just 1 before he was reported as ; lost in the battle of Debra I Zit. At the end of the war, ! Arma Rocca was granted a ! monthly pension of 10,000 ! lire. This week-end, Cesare, 1 now 52, wrote to say he had '■ married an Ethiopian woman. > had two sens, and was plan- * ning a trip home, the Associated Press reported. 1 ■ 1 i Two others were New Zea- . landers and one an Austral- . ian.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 23
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