65th Infantry Division from July, he fought in the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo in the Mešnjak area and won his third Silver Medal in the process, and then, he fought in the disastrous Battle of Caporetto. From April 1918 he was chief of staff of the 34th Infantry Division. His organizational ability was recognised in September by a commendation and the award of a knighthood in the Military Order of Savoy. After the armistice, he spent some time in the Tonale–Garda area, moved to the post of commandant in Padua and then joined the Rome garrison and the general staff. Interwar period Despite his distinguished if unexceptional career, from 20 July 1920 to 7 March 1925 he was relegated to a "Special Auxiliary Position", a special arrangement intended to handle the large number of officers after the end of the war. During that time, he became a member of the Italian Fascist Party on 4 May 1921 and was promoted to colonel on 31 December 1924. On his return to active duty in 1925, he was assigned to the General Secretariat of the Supreme Commission on Defence, and he left the service from February 1926. He remained at that post until 1 March 1928, when he was sent to command the 6th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment. On 25 January 1931 he was promoted brigadier general, and in March 1931, he returned to Rome as chief of staff to the VIII Army Corps. He then served as artillery commander of the III Army Corps at Milan in 1933, before being appointed acting chief of staff for the X Army Corps at Napoli in 1934 and for the VI Army Corps at Bologna in 1935. On 25 November 1935, he was appointed to the highly-prestigious and sought-after post of commander of the Granatieri di Sardegna Infantry Division in Rome. Ethiopia and Albania In March 1936 he was sent to Italian Somaliland to command the Special Infantry Division "Laghi" during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. There, he occupied the area of the equatorial area and defeated the Ethiopian ras Desta Damtew. In October 1936 he became governor of the area, now the Galla-Sidamo Governorate, as well as commander of the local Italian garrison. For his service, he was promoted to divisional general in December and received a further Military Order of Savoy. He remained at that position until 1938. His violent suppression of