The Italian Army in
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Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Oriente (35th Infantry Division) |
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Commander : |
Maj-Gen. Carlo Petitti
di Roreto (17 May 1916 – 6 May 1917) Maj-Gen. Giuseppe Pennella (6 May 1917 –16 June 1917) Brig-Gen. Giovanni Battista Chiossi (ad interim, 16 June
1917 – 2 July 1917) Maj-Gen.
Ernesto Mombelli (2 July 1917) |
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Chief of
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Maj, then Lt.Col. Alberto Garbasso (24
May 1916 – 14 May 1917) Lt.Col. Alessandro Pirzio
Biroli (14 May – 1 July 1917) Col.
Riccardo Alberti (1 July 1917 – 29. August 1918) Lt.Col., then
Col. Carlo Fenoglietto (29 August 1918) |
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Allocation :
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Commandement
des Armées Alliées en
Orient (11 August 1916) Comando
Superiore delle Forze Italiane nei Balcani (27 October
1918) |
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“Sicilia” Brigade |
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Commander : |
Brig-Gen. Giovanni Battista Chiossi (9 June 1916 – 23 June 1917) Maj-Gen. Gennaro Venezia (23 June 1917 – 1 September 1918) Maj-Gen. Giovanni
Garruccio (2 – 8 September
1918) Maj-Gen. Gennaro Venezia (9 – 22 September 1918) Maj-Gen. Giovanni Garruccio
(23 September 1918) |
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Allocation : |
35th
Infantry Division (28 July 1916) |
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Composition :
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61st
Infantry Regiment Lt.Col.
Celso Rossi (21 June 1916 – 2 May 1917) Col. Carlo Citerni (24 May 1917 – 7 July 1918) Col. Carlo Iannaccaro (8 July 1918) |
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62nd
Infantry Regiment Col. Ermenegildo Fimmanò (6 May 1916 – 7 October 1917) Lt.Col. Ezio Zanetti (13 November 1917 – 20 May 1918) Lt.Col.
Ettore Silvestri (21 May – 21 September 1918) Col. Enrico Rolletto (21
September 1918) |
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Commander : |
Maj-Gen. Giacomo Desenzani
(6 June 1916 – 21 November
1916) Col.
Odoardo Famea (ad interim, 22 November
– 10 December 1916) Maj-Gen. Arturo Benedetto Mulazzani (10 December 1916 –
24 May 1917) Brig-Gen. Attilio Franchini (25 August
1917 – 22 August 1918) Brig-Gen. |
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Allocation : |
35th
Infantry Division (28 July 1916) |
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Composition :
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63rd
Infantry Regiment Col. Odoardo
Famea (24 August 1915 – 24 May
1917) Col. Delfo
De Minicis (24 May 1917) |
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64th
Infantry Regiment Col. Giovanni
Beltramo (26 May 1916 – 8
August 1917) Col. Enrico
Heinzelmann (19 August 1917) |
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“Ivrea” Brigade |
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Commander : |
Brig-Gen. Giuseppe Comolli
(12 July 1916 – 26 July 1917) Brig-Gen. Giovanni Beltramo
(25 August 1917) |
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Allocation : |
35th
Infantry Division (15 October 1916) |
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Composition :
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161st
Infantry Regiment Col.
Gennaro Venezia (29 April 1916 – 22 June 1917) Col.
Virginio Pizzo (6 July 1917) |
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162nd
Infantry Regiment Col. Raffaele Basso (16 December 1915 – 24 May 1917) Col.
Giovanni Negro (25 May 1917) |
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“Spezia” Brigade |
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Commander : |
Brig.-Gen. Vincenzo Ponzi (15 October 1918) |
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Allocation : |
35th
Infantry Division (15 October 1918) |
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Composition :
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125th
Infantry Regiment Lt.Col.
Giusepe Ameri (30 October
1918) |
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126th
Infantry Regiment Lt.Col.
Enrico Quaglia (15 October 1918) |
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Divisional Troops |
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Infantry : |
178th Territorial Battalion (18 September 1916) 14th Garrison Cpy. (18
September 1916) 89th Garrison Cpy. (20
December 1916) XXXV Assault Unit (31 May 1918) |
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Cavalry : |
1 Sq. of 16th “Cavalleggeri
di Lucca” Regiment (18 September – 15 October 1916) I Group of 16th “Cavalleggeri
di Lucca” Regiment [2nd and 3rd Sq.] (15 October 1916) I Group of 15th “Cavalleggeri
di Lodi” Regiment [4th, 5th, 6th Sq.] (from 10 October 1918) |
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Machine-guns : |
228th MG Cpy. Bersaglieri (from August 1916) 229th MG Cpy. Bersaglieri (from August 1916) 236th MG Cpy. Infantry
(from November 1916) 296th MG Cpy. Alpini (from October 1916) 374th MG Cpy. Bersaglieri (from December 1916) 375th MG Cpy. Bersaglieri (from December 1916) 507th MG Cpy. Alpini (from January 1917) 512th MG Cpy. Bersaglieri (from January 1917) 513th MG Cpy. Bersaglieri (from January 1917) 721st MG Cpy. (from May
1917) 722nd MG Cpy. (from May
1917) 723rd MG Cpy. (from May
1917) 1761st MG Cpy. (from May
1918) 1762nd MG Cpy. (from May
1918) 1763rd MG Cpy. (from May
1918) 1764th MG Cpy. (from May
1918) 1765th MG Cpy. (from May
1918) 1766th MG Cpy. (from May
1918) 1767th MG Cpy. (from May
1918) 1768th MG Cpy. (from May
1918) |
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Artillery : |
9th mountain
artillery group (22nd and 57th Bts.) 16th
mountain artillery group (69th and 70th Bts.) 18th
mountain artillery group (75th and 76th Bts.) 20th
mountain artillery group (37th and 59th Bts.) 101st
Fortress Artillery Cpy. |
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Engineers : |
XXIII Sapper
Battalion (75th, 80th, 85th Cps.) 8th Sapper Cpy. 72nd Sapper Cpy. 86th Sapper Cpy. 14th
Telegraph Cpy. 135th
Telegraph Cpy. 3rd Bridging
Cpy. 2nd Miners Cpy. |
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Minethrowers : |
51st Minethrowers Group 173rd
section 58 B 174th
section 58 B 175th
section 58 B 176th
section 58 B 80th battery
200th
battery 191st
battery 199th
battery 417th
battery 58 B |
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Aviation : |
73rd Squadron
(fighters) 111th
Squadron (observation) |
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Remarks : All the
dates in this page are according the western – Gregorian – calendar. |
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