Cika wannan jumla: Carmelo Borg Pisani ya yi kokarin shiga Malta a lokacin yakin (
Operation Herkules), amma an kama shi kuma an kashe shi a matsayin ɗan leƙen asiri a watan Nuwamba na 1942. Ya karɓi lambar yabo ta Zinare ta Soja, lambar yabo ta soja mafi girma ta Italiya, daga Sarki Victor Emmanuel III 'yan kwanaki bayan mutuwarsa. Iyali da gwamnatin Italiya sun nemi a binne gawarsa a waje da gidan yarin, amma ba a amince da wannan bukatar ba. Benito Mussolini ya kira shi "Marta Martyr" kuma ya ƙirƙira shi a cikin girmamawa a Liguria "Battaglione Borg Pisani" a watan Nuwamba 1943, wanda sauran Maltese irredentists suka yi yaƙi.