1 July 1900: Assault on Chinese barricades

01/07/15

Beijing (during the period of clashes with the 1900-1901 Boxers), already in the second month of the siege, during a counterattack the lieutenant Tommaso Federico Paolini at the head of his sailors, though wounded, launched the assault of a barricade firmly defended by boxers causing them serious losses.

For his behavior in action, the demonstrated courage and cold blood will be decorated with the military gold medal.

[Tommaso Federico PAOLINI born in Turin on 2 May 1873 and died of an accident in the Gaeta roadstead 18 in April 1926, during the First World War he commanded submarines and surface units earning two war crosses]

Source: Military Navy