United Italy Medal 1848 - ?

[Duncan]

Does anyone know why the United Italy 1848-1918 was reissued with the dates 1848-1922?

[jimn]

Hello According my Italian reference books  this medal was extended in 1940 to cover the expedition to Fiume  in 1919 ( quite an interesting story) and the the Fascist March on Rome in 1922 which brought Mussolini to power. Both these actions already had their own "campaign" medals . 

[chechaco1]

pure politics. Mussolini's rise to power revived the idea of the Roman Empire, Ethiopia was taken for this purpose in 1936, followed by Albania and Greece. 1922 as the year of the beginning of a new stage of the Risorgimento - Imperial.

[Duncan]

Thanks everyone.