Davide Dusmet

Davide Dusmet de Smours (Naples, 17 June 1881 – Schokken, 24 November 1943) was an Italian general during World War II.

He was born in Naples in 1881, the son of Duke Giustino Dusmet, Marquis of Smours, and of Anna d'Evoli, Marquise of Trignano; his was an aristocratic family closely linked to the Bourbons.

In 1912 he took part in the Italo-Turkish war, and on 31 December 1914 he was promoted to captain, serving with the 13th Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Monferrato".

After the war he continued serving in the 32nd Infantry Regiment with the rank of major, and was also an alternate judge at the territorial military court of Naples from 1 May 1924.

After the Armistice of Cassibile in September 1943 he was captured by German troops in Dubrovnik and sent as a prisoner of war to Poland, in Oflag 64/Z of Schokken, where he arrived on the following 2 October.