AN AFRICAN PATRIOT TAKEN: 2019
An Ethiopian veteran of the Second Italo-ethiopian War poses with his medals and full uniform. After Italy’s successful invasion of Ethiopia (then known as Abyssinia) in 1936, Emperor Haile Selassie fled the country but many Ethiopians remained to resist the occupation. Hundreds of resistance fighters were operating in the capital Addis Ababa, as well as in rural villages across the country. Years later during the Allied East Africa Campaign these soldiers, known as Arbegnoch (meaning Patriots), joined the British, Commonwealth and African forces in the battle against the remaining Italians.