The box, preserved among Giuseppe Caprotti family memorabilia, contains the Victory Medal (more precisely, the “Inter-Allied Medal”), “granted to soldiers who had participated in the First World War (more generally for the victorious countries of the Great War). (…) The medal was awarded to soldiers who had earned at least 4 months in the war zone or after the award of the war fatigue badge” (see VIRTUAL MUSEUM: “Official” Medals, in Pietri Grande Guerra. Stories of men and women in the First World War, http://www.pietrigrandeguerra.it , 23/08/2023).
Giuseppe’s uniform, in fact, bears the two ribbons of the Badge for War Efforts (consisting of a silk ribbon, see Wikipedia, entry Badge for War Efforts, https://it.wikipedia.org /23/08/2023), granted to him on 1 November 1918, and the Victory Medal.
The second decoration in the casket pertains to the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Sylvester Pope, as reformed in 1905. Given that it was (and is) ‘conferred on lay people particularly well-deserving of the Church and Catholic works’ (see Order of Saint Sylvester Pope, in http://www.araldicavaticana.com, 23/08/2023), it is not possible to establish with certainty whether the recipient of the honour (which also implies a uniform and the assumption of certain duties, including those of representation) was Peppino himself or, perhaps, his father Bernardo Caprotti, mayor of Albiate from 1896 to 1907, or some other Caprotti family ‘particularly well-deserving’ in the eyes of the Church.
