[1] He volunteered as a officer of the Alpini in the Mandrone battalion on the Adamello mountains and on the Tonale Pass during the First World War.

[1] During the Second World War, after Milan was bombed in 1942, he and his family fled to Abano Terme and then to Belluno; here his other brother-in-law Adriano suggested that he combine his interests in nature and the microscope, studying tardigrades, which soon became another great passion.

The whole family moved to Ghiffa and then to Pallanza after the armistice of 1943; here he began to frequent the Italian Institute of Hydrobiology, forming a strong friendship with Vittorio Tonolli and his wife Livia Pirocchi.

His pipe collection (which at that point numbered about 1500 pieces) was purchased by a collector friend of his, Fritz Bailender.

[1] From 1974, at the suggestion of Livia Pirocchi Tonolli [it], who was by then a professor, regular Tardigrade Symposia have been held in Ramazzotti's honour.