 Complete the following phrase:  He finished third grade twice in order to improve his basic education and in 1908 started to work as an apprentice blacksmith under his older brother Giuseppe in his workshop. In 1911 his father died in a tragic accident  a flashflood that overran his electrician workshop that had been built on the bank of the Troggia Waterfall. Tantardini later recalled that his fathers bones were not found until 1914. In 1915 he began work at the Ansaldo Power Plant in Genova. He enlisted in the Italian armed forces after World War I broke out in Europe and was exempted from active service since he worked in a corporation that was war-supporting and contributed to the Italian war effort. The Italian 