Cerino-Badone, Swiss Regiments - Libreria Militare Ares

wounded, and in the summer he was at the defence of Turin. The following year he participated at
the siege of Toulon in 1708 and, at the head of the grenadier company, at the capture of the Fort of
Perosa in Chisone Valley. On 12 March 1713 he was appointed M in the Regt Hakbrett. With this
unit he made the campaigns in Sicily during the War of the Quadruple Alliance. The 14 March 1725
he became LC and then he received the command of the regiment (21 December 1731). In the war
for the Polish Succession he participated to the operations in Piedmont and Lombardy (Sieges of
Novara and Tortona, battles of Parma and Guastalla). He received three wounds at the battle of
Parma, he was made BG (4 November 1735) in reward for his services, charged of the government
of Como, where his regiment was garrisoned. He was appointed MG 20 October 1737. In the
campaign of 1742 participated in the siege of Modena and Mirandola. On 5 January 1743 he left the
service for the effects of injuries on the battlefield and he retreated to Schaffhausen with a pension
of 6.000 Livres;
24-5-1744, Bruno Kalbermatten (Sion, 22 February 1700 - Turin, 26 April 1762). Member of one
of the most powerful family of the Valais, and of the city of Sion in particular, he was the grandson
of Nicolas Kalbermatten, Mayor of Sion, Bailiff of St. Maurice and the owner of a Swiss regiment
in the pay of the duke of Savoy in 1616. He was the son of Jacques-Arnold, Knight of St. Michael,
Mayor of Sion, Grand-Châtelain and Captain General of Dixain. Bruno had served in the Regt.
Hackbrett in 1717 as E, and he was garrisoned in Sicily until 1719, becoming in the meantime, SL
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