Ugo Ferrero

War Cross for Military Valor for his behaviour during the fighting on Monte Grappa during the battle of Vittorio Veneto, while attached to the 22nd Division. Having become lieutenant colonel from 16 November 1927, he was military attaché at the Italian embassy in the Weimar Republic and, in 1934, he became a teacher of German at the Royal Academy of Infantry and Cavalry in Modena, where he remained until 31 December 1935, when he was discharged from active service. He was married to Miss Francesca Intonti.^[1][2][3][4]

forced march on the snow; during the march, on 28 January, Ferrero was murdered by the SS for being unable to keep pace with the group, along with generals Carlo Spatocco, Alberto Trionfi, Emanuele Balbo Bertone, Giuseppe Andreoli and Alessandro Vaccaneo. Ferrero was the last to be killed; General Ettore De Blasio later recounted his last words before collapsing and being shot had been "I can no longer walk, my foot is swollen, my legs cannot hold me. I know the fate that awaits me; tell my wife how I died". Unlike the other generals, his body was never recovered; in May 1945 his family was wrongly informed by the Italian Embassy in Moscow that he was alive and well, but one month later they were notified of his death.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}