Also awarded two silver medals for military valour.
Grounds for the award: "His strong military attitude, aiming to support his homeland, led him to take on the leadership of an infantry battalion, always showing his radiant spirit of abnegation and devotion to duty.
In the midst of a desperate endurance test, proving himself to be a sagacious commander and a virtuous hero, at the head of his division he faced the prevailing enemy masses; surrounded and summoned to surrender, he did not relent. On the contrary, he intensified the fire of the machine-guns he had left, ready for the inevitable holocaust. Shot to death and still holding his weapon he fell to the ground, while his last cry "Hurrah for Italy" was piercing the ears of his enemies, proving to them that, despite fate's adversities, the death of Italian soldiers can be indeed admirable".