Isidoro de Franceschi, missing 1940–1945

«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.) --- ⚠ 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.