Italian War Memorial at El Alamein

Most of the Italian units fought bravely and effectively,[1][2] and their sacrifice allowed the rest of the Axis army in Africa to escape.

Italian forces had also been heavily engaged, and taken severe losses, at the First Battle of El Alamein.

The Italian war memorial is built on Tel el-Eisa (Hill of Jesus) near the coast, a site of heavy fighting during the battle.

Dominioni devoted his postwar life to collecting the remains of Italian dead from the battlefield and advocating for the construction of a memorial.

Due to Paolo Caccia Dominioni's twenty years of effort, the remains of thousands of German and British soldiers (as well as Italian) were also eventually identified and received a proper burial.