Gioacchino Solinas

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Gioacchino Solinas
21st Infantry Division Granatieri di Sardegna

205th Regional Military Command
Battles/wars
Awards

Gioacchino Solinas (1 September 1892 in

Grenadiers of Sardinia during the defense of Rome after the Armistice of Cassibile; he later joined the Italian Social Republic
.

Biography

He was born in Bonorva,

Machine Gun Regiment.[1][2][3]

At the end of the war he was transferred to the

War Cross for Military Valor. At the end of the operations, having been promoted to major, he was transferred to the military garrison of Zara as battalion commander, serving under Giovanni Messe, who praised his qualities. He was later promoted to colonel and transferred to Italian East Africa, where in 1939 he became commander of the 16th Colonial Brigade stationed in Gondar. He further distinguished himself during counter-guerrilla operations in Ethiopia, for which he was awarded a second Silver Medal for military valor.[1][2][4][3]

He returned to Italy before the country entered

21st Infantry Division Granatieri di Sardegna.[1][2][4][3]

On the evening of September 8 he learned of the signing of the

Via Ostiense. The checkpoint was not returned, and after the ultimatum expired the Grenadiers of Sardinia opened fire on the Germans, starting the battle for the defense of Rome. The fighting continued till 4:10 pm on 10 September, when General Giorgio Calvi di Bergolo and Marshal of Italy Enrico Caviglia signed a ceasefire with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. The division was then dissolved and Solinas, wanted by the Germans for his order to fire on them, was forced to go into hiding.[1][2][4][3][5]

In spite of this, after the establishment of the Italian Social Republic he was contacted by Marshal of Italy Rodolfo Graziani, Minister of National Defense of the RSI, who offered him the position of military commander of Lombardy (205th Regional Military Command), which he accepted in November 1943. This was a merely administrative assignment, as Solinas was not given command of combat troops. Nonetheless, the government of the Italian Social Republic accused him of collaboration with the National Liberation Committee for having removed "officers animated by Fascist faith" from service in the National Republican Army, and he was eventually dismissed in 1944 at the explicit request of Benito Mussolini.[1][2][4][3]

After the end of the war Solinas was arrested by the

Court of Cassation of Rome. He then retired to private life, publishing in 1967 a memoir book about the defense of Rome, and dying in Sassari on April 22, 1987.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Daniele Sanna, Da Porta San Paolo a Salò. Gioacchino Solinas comandante antitedesco, pp. 9-10-11-12-13-15-16
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-14. Retrieved 2021-11-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ a b c d e f "ROMA 8 SETTEMBRE 1943: Home". www.roma8settembre1943.it. Archived from the original on 2021-11-14. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  4. ^ a b c d "Biography of Major-General Giaocchino Solinas (1892 – ), Italy". www.generals.dk. Archived from the original on 2021-08-12. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  5. ^ "I Granatieri di Sardegna nella difesa di Roma del Settembre 1943 - GNOSIS - Rivista italiana di intelligence". gnosis.aisi.gov.it. Archived from the original on 2021-11-14. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
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