CAVALERO

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Marin Journal
Thursday, December 15, 1921
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Italian Soldier Boy Dies Of Pneumonia

Giulo Cavalero came over from his home in Italy a month ago to visit his brother, George Cavalero, in Novato. He had an annoying cold when he reached this country, and it grew worse gradually, so gradually that the young man paid scant note of its progress. He was taken acutely ill Monday and was removed to the Emergency hospital. The physicians were powerless to arrest the consuming fever of pneumonia, and the patient died the next morning.

Cavalero was 23 years old, and when war was declared by Italy he went to the front. In the first clash of his regiment with the Austrian army he was taken prisoner, and for sixteen months he was held and subjected to the treatment accorded the luckless victims of the rage vented upon them by the soldiers of a country doomed to ultimate defeat.

According to accounts given by Cavalero to his brother, he was one of 16 young Italian soldiers whose daily task it was to drag a great plow through Austrian fields. Hitched to the implement like horses or mules, they were spurred to their work by bayonet thrusts delivered at the hands of petty officers in charge of the “working prisoners.”

The body was shipped to San Francisco by the F. E. Sawyer Company for burial and services will be held Saturday.