dates unknown
Isidoro de Franceschi, missing 1940–1945
Isidoro de Franceschi, missing 1940–1945, Mione, Ovaro. Dispersi — missing. He has no grave and no dates, and a memorial is the only record of him this. Every record this archive holds for this one person, with the document behind each.
Name
Isidoro de Franceschi, missing 1940–1945
Years
dates unknown
Place
Mione, Ovaro
Line
carnia
Found in
Read off the register
The family
No family chart is drawn for this person, and that is a statement about the data rather than about them. This archive records kin against a name — the tree on a name page gathers everyone who shares it, so it may hold one person's dates beside another's wife. Rather than hand a reader a family that might not be this person's, the chart is drawn only where the relationship is recorded person by person, which today means the direct line.
What the archive knows
«Dispersi» — missing. He has no grave and no dates, and a memorial is the only record of him this archive has found.
> GUERRA 1940 – 1945 — MILITARI CADUTI: SPINOTTI ADOLFO · SPINOTTI ERVISIO — DISPERSI: DE FRANCESCHI ISIDORO · MACUGLIA DONATO · MENEGON ANICETO · MICOLI SISTO — «F. F. 19 - 9 - 1954».
Read 29 September 2026 from David's photographs of the Carnian cemeteries — Ovaro, Mione, Muina and Agrons. ⚠ Which of the four cemeteries this stone stands in is not distinguished in the photographs, and is not guessed here. (doc.)
«Disperso» is the word Italian memorials use for a man who did not come back and was never found — lost on a front, in a camp, or on the retreat, with no body returned and no date of death. He is listed under MILITARI, so he was a soldier.
⚠ This archive has no other trace of him. He is not in the Arolsen collections under any spelling tried, and not in the Yugoslav victims' census — which would not hold an Italian soldier. The Italian military records are the route, and they have not been opened. (open.)
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⚠ 29 September 2026, an hour later — there are TWO De Franceschi Isidoro, and this page nearly became both.
A further photograph shows the war memorial at Muina, «IN MEMORIA DEI CADUTI IN GUERRA», inaugurated 22 August 1920 and set up by «I COMPAGNI DI MUINA» — the comrades of Muina. It is a First World War memorial, and it lists «SOLD. DE FRANCESCHI VITTORIO» and «DE FRANCESCHI ISIDORO».
That Isidoro died between 1915 and 1918. This one was «disperso» in 1940–1945. They are a generation apart and they are two men. The First World War Isidoro has his own page.
⚠ Written up carefully because this record was made from a single memorial an hour before the second one arrived, and a name on a war memorial carries no dates to tell two men apart. Where a family repeats a name across generations, a memorial is the easiest place in the world to merge two people.
No one else in this archive carries this name.