By way of the patronage of her buddy, Duke Fulco Tosti di Valminuta, Ohlfsen was entrusted with the design for a struggle memorial on the naval base of Formia, which was later reported to be “the one public work to be put up in Europe by a lady and the one struggle memorial to be executed in Italy by a foreigner”. She started the work on the memorial in 1923 and it was devoted on July 18, 1926. Although she obtained no fee, the memorial was one in every of her most necessary commissions, its central determine representing magnificence, youth, energy and sacrifice. She was given the Freedom of the Metropolis and was deeply moved when the “peasant ladies and youngsters got here down from the hills to seek for the names of their lifeless on the bottom of the statue, and to strew flowers upon its steps”.
