Complex sentence: As first battalion's commander was appointed, Giuseppe ALIZZI: a Sicilian from Giarre, he was a former Lieutenant of the Italian Army who had joined the Partisans after the Italian capitulation of September 8,1943.
Split into simpler sentences: As first battalion's commander was appointed, Giuseppe ALIZZI. A Sicilian from Giarre, he was a former Lieutenant of the Italian Army who had joined the Partisans after the Italian capitulation of September 8,1943.