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Gabriele De Nunzi
Gabriele De Nunzi was born in 1919 to Valerio De Nunzi and Gioia Riace, the latter dying some hours after the birth of Gabriele. De Nunzi grew up in relative poverty, as his father, who worked in a shipyard in Vernazza, had to sustain him and his 3 brothers: Francesco, Giorgio and Davide, with Gabriele being the youngest. With his father working long shifts at the shipyards, Gabriele and his brothers freely roamed the city of Vernazza, often skipping school and sometimes stealing from the local market. Although his general dislike of school, he reportedly really enjoyed history, as he enjoyed reading about the great personalities of the past. At the age of 12, his oldest brother Francesco, aged 17, was caught stealing and was sent to a youth correctional facility on Kyabar, and some months later his Davide, aged 14, died of Malaria. As he recalled during an interview on the radio in 1961, it was at that point that he realized that if he kept going on with this life, he wouldnt be remembered as the the personalities he enjoyed so much studying. He joined a high school, and although with many struggles, managed to get a diploma in linguistic studies. With the knowledge of 5 languages (Borgosesian, Anglic, Agrarian, Bakanese and Vallisian), he joined the Royal Theykan Army in 1937, being commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion (the unit with the most deployment overseas), 3rd Marine Brigade in 1940. He was very patriotic, and wanted Theyka to play a big role on the global scale, and was disappointed that Theyka wasnt going to directly intervene in the Great Kesh War in 1949. With the rank of Captain, he was now leading one of the companies in the battalion, and was eager to prove his worth in combat. He started to talk to politicians, diplomats and high ranking military officials trying to persuade them to intervene, but he was ignored in all instances. His resentment grew, along with the resentment of the 5th Battalion as a whole, as they would have been one of the first units sent to the fight, this led him to book a flight to Tilenno and then taking a ferry to Kodeshia, to then proceed to the front by truck. Taken into custody as soon as he got to the front, he was suspected of being a spy, but after questioning and examination of his documents he was realeased, and talked to a Kodeshian colonel, discussing about the possibility to organize a Theykan Volounteer Unit in the Imperial Kodeshian Army.