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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 : |
XXI
Airplane group (from 25 May 1918) cpt.
Mario Ajmone Cat (from 1 June 1918) 73rd and 111th Squadron Dudlar Advanced Air Depot 47th
Squadron (from January to September 1917) cpt. Luigi
Chiappelli lt. Giancarlo Massola (from 30 May 1917) lt. Sestino
Mauro (from 18 August 1917) lt. Carlo Roccari (from 26 August 1917) Farman MF
11 and F 40 two-seaters observers 4 Nieuport
11 fighters (added on 8 June 1917) 73rd
Squadron (from 10 December 1917) lt. Ernesto Bonavoglia lt. Vittorio
De Biasi (from February 1918) Nieuport
11, Nieuport 17 and Spad
S. VII fighters Nieuport
27 fighters (from spring 1918) Hanriot
HD. 1 fighters (summer 1918) 1st Section/83rd
Squadron (June 1917) 1st lt. Giovanni
Righi lt. Ernesto Bonavoglia
(from 1 August 1918) Nieuport
11 fighters Became the 73rd Squadron on 1
December 1917 111th
Squadron (from October 1917) cpt. Mario Ajmone Cat cpt. Ercole Guadagni (from 1 June 1918) cpt.
Andrea Ferraris (19 September 1917) SAML S2 two-seaters reconnaissance Pomilio PE two-seaters
reconnaissance (from 7 September 1918) Ansaldo
S.V.A. reconnaissance (from 13 September 1918) |
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Remarks : All the
dates in this page are according the western – Gregorian – calendar. |
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