During the battle of Caporetto in World War I, he commanded VII corps of the Italian 2nd Army.

In 1917 he received the italian silver medal for military valor.

In 1924 a flight accident forced B. to leave the Cyrenaica governorship (24 May 1924); retired, he was appointed member (and from 1927 president of the section) of the "Superior Council of the Colonies".

Senator in 1929, r. commissioner of the Agronomic Institute for Italian Africa in the period 1930-35, he continued to deal with colonial and military problems, also collaborating on various magazines and writing books.Giorgio Rochat[4]He was senator of the kingdom of Italy since 1928 (when he become a member of Fascist Party main rulers) until his death (because of heart attack) in 1941.

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