"Italian 58th Infantry Regiment" Topic
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troopwo | 02 Jul 2021 2:42 p.m. PST |
Getting a pictorial display ready for my Moms' funeral visitation and rummaging through a collection of photographs the other day. I knew her Dad was a great war vet who lost both feet to frostbite in the Alps fighting against the Austro-Hungarians. Never really heard anything more about his war service. I did though run across three items though. One was a commerorative letter from a town, Esse or Este to the vets thanking their unit the 58th Infantry Regiment. Another small snapshot of Kng Victor Emmanuel alongside a number of generals, visiting the hospital postwar for medal presentations. You have to see the Italian kepis covered in gold leaf and the greatcoats with dark fur collars. The third photograph was of a reunion of my grandfathers and his fellow vets at a town for the 50th anniversary of their call up, in 1966. I am rather curious if anyone has any idea where that regiment as based out of? Which town? and if anyone has a short history of what the regiment did in the Great War? |
troopwo | 02 Jul 2021 2:50 p.m. PST |
He lived until 1969 but I never met him. Strangely enough, he signed up during the second war and did explosive ordinance disposal. There were enough leftovers around his home town, I suspect that folks are still gainfully employed cleaning it up. Then the same area just happened to be along the main bomber routes from southern Italy to Austria, so it just kept piling up as it were. When visiting in the early eighties, my Mom pointed out, "Oh that is where I used to bicycle to my Dad to take him his lunch at work". There was a ten foot high dirt berm and then a kilometer of nothing with a tiny shack in the middle of it. It makes sense after what I asked he did there. It also explains why every farm in his village had a first war or second war bomb with no fuse cap used as a flower pot in each corner of their house. |
Grelber | 02 Jul 2021 6:43 p.m. PST |
The 58th Infantry Regiment was part of the Abruzzi Brigade of the 17th Infantry Division, IX Corps, 4th Division in October- November 1918. They took part in the final battle of Vittorio Veneto, attacking in the Bassano sector. Abruzzi is on the Adriatic coast, east of Rome. Not a lot to go on, but perhaps a start. Grelber |
Musketballs | 03 Jul 2021 4:17 a.m. PST |
Abruzzo was also the eastern end of the Gustav Line. While overshadowed by Cassino in the history books, the fighting on the Sangro was no less vicious. No surprise the old guy was kept so busy after the war. |
troopwo | 03 Jul 2021 5:22 a.m. PST |
Thanks Grelber, fair start. I found some of the earlier sites from 1916 and 1917 for them too. |
Legion 4 | 03 Jul 2021 7:51 a.m. PST |
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cplcampisi | 18 Jul 2021 7:40 p.m. PST |
My understanding is that prior to the war the idea was to recruit from a couple of different localities, and then garrison the troops in a third. During the war, troops were not assigned a regiment until completing basic training, and I suspect they were fed in as replacements to whichever regiment needed them. As a result the name of the brigade, and where the soldiers were from were usually unrelated. The soldiers from Sardinia were the exception, they kept them together for linguistic reasons. The history of the brigade appears to be here: link |
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