At the end of the war, returning from the Allies War Prisoner Camp of Coltano, the ex-serviceman of Monterosa Division were looking for the friends, the camerates who share that important part of life, risks, fatigues, battles.

During the last months of the hard imprisonment behind the barbed wire, some soldiers collect the names and addresses of the personnel of the Division in order to maintain the relationship.

In the city of Milan a very scrupulous organization was prepared by the Liutenant Bruno Licitra who, in his home, made the first list of Alpini.

In the 1949 was born the first Bollettino Monterosa (Monterosa Magazine); a simple and poor leaf destined to the numerous catalogate names in order to collect money to sustain with food and gifts all the soldiers (for example General Carloni, Division’s Commander) still detained within the Italian jails.

1949: The first real meeting between the veterans of Monterosa Division has been in Milan.

1951: legal structure and foundation of a Private Fund destined to all the war disabled people, consequently at the decision of the Italian State to deprive of assistance all the ex-members of RSI’s Army.

In the same year a Provisional Committee leaded by the President Gen. Mario Carloni (Division’s commander in war time) has been create.

The Official Statute, declared that all the Dead are members of the Association, has the following aims:

a) Keeping and honouring the memory of the Dead members of Monterosa Division; search the missing corpses in order to guarantee a worthy burial.
b) Confirm the friendship links that were born in war time and to promote solidarity between the members of the Division. Organize the assistance in favour of soldier still detained concerning war facts, Deads Family, disabled ex-servicemen consequently at the service during the war.
c) Collect and tidy up the documents relate to the Division’s History.

Has been constituted the voluntary and apolitical association named:
Divisione Monterosa – Associazione degli appartenenti alla Divisione Alpina Monterosa.

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