Ugo Gigliarelli Fiumi

Ugo Gigliarelli Fiumi (Soresina, 24 February 1880 – Rome, 5 October 1944) was an Italian general during World War II.

Biography

He was born in Soresina on 24 February 1880, into a family of Umbrian origins. After attending the Royal Military Academy of Infantry and Cavalry in Modena, he graduated with the rank of infantry second lieutenant. He was promoted to lieutenant on 20 December 1903; in March 1912 he was promoted to the rank of captain while serving in the 82nd Regiment of the "Siena" Infantry Brigade in Siena, but in June of the same year he was assigned to the 23rd Infantry Regiment, deployed to Libya for the Italo-Turkish War. There he was wounded in action and awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valor in the battle of Sidi Bilal. After promotion to lieutenant colonel on 1 January 1917, he was assigned to the 51st Infantry Regiment and then transferred to the 4th.

On 10 April 1939 he was appointed commander of the 15th Infantry Division "Bergamo", a post he still held when the Kingdom of Italy entered the Second World War on 10 June 1940, when his Division was deployed near the border between Italy and Yugoslavia. On 1 December 1940 he was transferred to the Ministry of War, where he remained until 1 January 1943, when he was transferred to the Army reserve. On 1 January 1941 he had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. He died in Rome on 5 October 1944.