italy entered the first world war on july 1943.
italy entered the first world war on july 1943.
when did italy enter the first world war?
july 1943
bullet::::- corporal john collins, first world war (31 october 1917)









































bullet::::- corporal james llewellyn davies, first world war (31 july 1917)









































bullet::::- corporal joseph john davies, first world war (20 july 1916)









































bullet::::- lt-colonel charles doughty-wylie, first world war (26 april 1915)









































bullet::::- private albert hill, first world war (20 july 1916)









































bullet::::- lance-sergeant william herbert waring, first world war (18 september 1918)









































bullet::::- lance-corporal henry weale, first world war (26 august 1918)









































section::::colonels-in-chief.









































the colonels-in-chief of the regiment were:









































bullet::::- 1901: king george v









































bullet::::- 1936: king george vi









































bullet::::- 1953: queen elizabeth ii









































section::::regimental colonels.
royal welch fusiliers
on 10 june 1940, ignoring advice that the country was unprepared, mussolini made the fatal decision to have italy enter world war ii on the side of nazi germany. almost from the beginning, disaster followed disaster. the first italian offensive, an invasion of france launched on 17 june 1940, ended in complete failure, and only the fact that france signed an armistice with germany on 21 june, followed by another armistice with italy on 24 june allowed mussolini to present it as a victory. victor emmanuel sharply criticized the terms of the franco-italian armistice, saying he wanted italy to occupy tunisia, corsica, and nice, though the fact the armistice allowed him to proclaim a victory over france was a source of much pleasure to him. in 1940 and 1941, italian armies in north africa and in greece suffered humiliating defeats. unlike his opposition over going to war with major powers like france and britain (who might actually defeat italy), victor emmanuel blessed mussolini's plans to invade greece in the fall of 1940, saying he expected the greeks to collapse as soon as italy invaded. through the "carabinieri" (para-military police), victor emmanuel was kept well informed of the state of public opinion and from the autumn of 1940 onward received reports that the war together with the fascist regime were becoming extremely unpopular with the italian people. when mussolini made marshal pietro badoglio the scapegoat for the failure of the invasion of greece and sacked him as chief of the general staff in december 1940, badoglio appealed to the king for help. victor emmanuel refused to help badoglio, saying that mussolini would manage the situation just always as he had in the past. in january 1941, the king admitted to his aide-de-camp, general paolo puntoni, that war was not going well and the fascist regime was becoming very unpopular, but he had decided to keep mussolini on as a prime minister because there was no replacement for him. because the king had supported the fascism, he feared that to overthrow the fascist system would mean the end of the monarchy as the anti-fascist parties were all republican.
victor emmanuel iii of italy