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Jul 06, 1887 Bari, Apulia, Italy Died on 01 Jan 1965 (aged 77)
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About Nicolangelo Carnimeo
- Nicolangelo Carnimeo (6 July 1887 – 1965) was an Italian general of World War II and a politician in the Italian Republic.
- Carnimeo was born in Bari on 6 July 1887.
- He graduated in law and political sciences and in 1909 was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Italian Army in 1909.
- He served during both the Italo-Turkish War and the First World War.
- From 1940 to 1941, as a brigadier general during the East African Campaign of the Second World War, he commanded the 2nd Eritrean Division in Italian East Africa and led the X Territorial Defence Command.
- He fought the brilliant, if doomed, defence in the Battle of Keren, one of the major feats of arms of Italy in the war, and was promoted to major general afterwards.
- He himself highly esteemed the bravery of the Indian troops in the service of the British Empire he faced in Africa.
- He ended the war as lieutenant general and later was a legal-administrative judge and then a member of Parliament of the Italian Republic.
- General Carnimeo died in Naples in 1965.
