Ugo Santovito

Ugo Santovito (Manfredonia, 11 March 1882 – Meran, 22 January 1943) was an Italian general during World War II.

Biography

He entered the Military Academy of Modena on 30 October 1899, and graduated as second lieutenant of artillery on 2 August 1902. On 22 August 1904 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and was assigned to the Coastal Artillery Brigade of Sardinia. In 1911–1912 he participated in the Italo-Turkish War, initially in the 9th Fortress Artillery Regiment and later in the 36th Field Artillery Regiment, earning a Silver Medal of Military Valor. He remained in Libya after the end of the war, countering local insurgency, and returned to Italy on November 17, 1913.

Following the outbreak of the First World War he fought on the Asiago plateau with the rank of captain, initially in the 2nd Mountain Artillery Regiment and then in the 1st Mountain Artillery Regiment, earning a Bronze Medal of Military Valor. His artillery group was later transferred to the Dolomites, in the Col di Lana and Val Vanoi sector, where he was awarded another bronze medal for military valor. In early 1917 his group was transferred to the Isonzo front and Santovito was promoted to major on January 4, 1917, later earning a War Cross for Military Valor. After Caporetto, his group was redeployed on Monte Grappa, where Santovito earned two silver medals for military valor.

He died suddenly in the reserve territorial military hospital of Merano due to a severe form of sepsis on January 22, 1943, aged sixty.