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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Giacomo Appiotti

Appiotti, Giacomo

Lieutenant-General

* 3rd of February 1873

† 29th of January 1948

Promotions

1917-02-25 Lieutenant-Colonel
1917-09-20 Colonel (Seniority from 1917-09-16)
1929-06-13 Brigadier-General (Seniority from 1929-06-01)
1933-01-23 Major-General (Seniority from 1932-12-22)
1937-01-21 Lieutenant-General (Seniority from 1937-01-01)
1937-04-03 Lieutenant-General (War merits)(Seniority from 1936-03-03)

Service

1917-06-XX 1918-04-14 Commanding Officer 3rd Alpine Regimnt
1917-06-XX 1918-03-XX Commanding Officer Zugna Sector
1918-04-14 1918-10-29 Commandant of Infantry Schoool, 1st Army
1918-10-29 1919-05-30 Commanding Officer 17th Alpine Group
1919-05-30 1922-07-06 At disposal of the Ministry of War
1922-07-06 1925-07-10 Chief of ? Section, Ministry of War
1925-07-XX 1929-06-13 Commandant of School Junior & Non-Commissioned Officers
1929-06-13 1933-01-22 Commanding Officer 12th Infantry Brigade
1933-02-01 1934-10-01 General Officer Commanding Military Territorial Division "Udine"
1934-10-01 1935-06-10 President of the Commission of Experimental Advancement of Junior Officers, Ministry of War
1935-06-10 1936-11-XX General Officer Commanding 3rd Black Shirt Division "XXI Aprile" [East Africa]
1937-01-01 1939-02-03 Attached to the Ministry of War
1939-02-03 1940-01-01 Unemployed
1939-04-17 1943-08-05 Member of the Commission of Affairs of Italian Africa, Senate
1940-01-01 Retired
1943-01-XX 1943-11-10 President of Administration Council of the Military Union
Picture source: From "Generali Dell'Impero" by Vinicio Araldi, 1940