Enrico Millo

[1] Born in Chiavari, Province of Genoa, he was named guardiamarina in the Italian Regia Marina ("Royal Navy") in 1884.

He participated as a navy officer in the campaigns of Kingdom of Italy in the Horn of Africa, and with the rank of capitano di vascello (ship-of-the-line captain) he led a raid by five Italian torpedo boats against the Ottoman fleet on 18 July 1912 during the Italo-Turkish War.

After the expedition, he was named a senator of the Kingdom of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III.

During World War I he held a command post[cleanup needed] in the Regia Marina, a branch of the Italian military.

He was named military governor of Dalmatia during the occupation of the eastern Adriatic in the aftermath of the World War I.