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With the surrender of the Italian forces in East Africa by General Guglielmo Nasi in November 1941, Guillet refused to break his oath while he could still fight. He formed the remnants of his force, known simply as the “Amhara” (Band) under a banner with the Cross of Savoy superimposed with an Islamic Crescent and the motto “Semper Ulterius”. He carried on a small scale guerilla conflict with the British and established arms caches that remained in the desert for years. Well armed but lacking ammunition and support, Guillet, who was known as ‘Comandante Diavolo’ (The Devil Commander) to both the natives and the British kept up his fight. It was the absence of support from outside the occupied area that effectively ended his almost one-man “Lawrence of Arabia” war. When finally cornered he disbanded his force and escaped to Yemen disguised as an Arab named Ahmed Abdullah al Redai. He there was granted service in the Yemeni king’s court as an advisor to the Royal guard.
He returned to Italy in disguise in September 1943 just before the Italian government switched sides and signed an armistice with the Allies. In reward for his services he was promoted to Major and reassigned against his wishes to Military Intelligence, finishing the war on missions in occupied German territory. After the war, Guillet entered the Italian diplomatic corps at the insistence of his king and served throughout the Middle East and North Africa until retiring from public service to his estate in Ireland in 1975. In 2000 he was awarded the Knights Grand Cross of the Military Order of Italy by the Italian President. It is the highest of high orders of Italy, with Guillet being only one of 28 people in history to be awarded such an honor. In 2001 the elderly Guillet visited Eritrea and was shocked to be greeted by an adoring crowd of thousands, including scores of also elderly Eritrean men, former horsemen of the Italian Cavalry force known as Gruppo Bande a Cavallo Amhara
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With the surrender of the Italian forces in East Africa by General Guglielmo Nasi in November 1941, Guillet refused to break his oath while he could still fight. He formed the remnants of his force, known simply as the “Amhara” (Band) under a banner with the Cross of Savoy superimposed with an Islamic Crescent and the motto “Semper Ulterius”. He carried on a small scale guerilla conflict with the British and established arms caches that remained in the desert for years. Well armed but lacking ammunition and support, Guillet, who was known as ‘Comandante Diavolo’ (The Devil Commander) to both the natives and the British kept up his fight. It was the absence of support from outside the occupied area that effectively ended his almost one-man “Lawrence of Arabia” war. When finally cornered he disbanded his force and escaped to Yemen disguised as an Arab named Ahmed Abdullah al Redai. He there was granted service in the Yemeni king’s court as an advisor to the Royal guard.
He returned to Italy in disguise in September 1943 just before the Italian government switched sides and signed an armistice with the Allies. In reward for his services he was promoted to Major and reassigned against his wishes to Military Intelligence, finishing the war on missions in occupied German territory. After the war, Guillet entered the Italian diplomatic corps at the insistence of his king and served throughout the Middle East and North Africa until retiring from public service to his estate in Ireland in 1975. In 2000 he was awarded the Knights Grand Cross of the Military Order of Italy by the Italian President. It is the highest of high orders of Italy, with Guillet being only one of 28 people in history to be awarded such an honor. In 2001 the elderly Guillet visited Eritrea and was shocked to be greeted by an adoring crowd of thousands, including scores of also elderly Eritrean men, former horsemen of the Italian Cavalry force known as Gruppo Bande a Cavallo Amhara
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