Dear friends,
I require some urgent assistance from you for my manuscript.
Mr. Giorgio Rochat in
his fine work Gli arditi della Grande Guerra mentions an episode which took place on 4th September 1917 on Mt. San
Gabriele (646 m), when during the attack of the Italian assault troops (arditi) trooper Colacci fought a duel with General HON, commander of the 4th
Austro-Hungarian Infantry Brigade. According to some sources he killed him during a short firefight, while other sources claim he was seriously wounded and
captured, along with two other high ranking staff officers from the brigade headquarters.
I am attaching below scans from Rochat's book with underlined text where he mentions this episode. It is basically quoted in all other major books about Isonzo Front, so I cannot make anywhere any double checks. This story is OK except the fact that I am having a helluva hard times to find out who was this General HON from the 4th Austro-Hungarian Infantry Brigade. I have checked the list of killed generals in WW1 and no one is matching to him, not to mention that I couldn't find any general with such a surname on the list of A-H Generals in WW1. It is not Major-General Hrozny, the commander of 57th Infantry Division nor Colonel Laxa from the 18th Inf. Brigade. So who is he??? Could he be the commander of the 5th IB of the 57th Inf. Division? I know that Colonel Gustav von Hartmann from IR.41 assumed the command of the brigade in 1917 after the battle, so this outfit brigade seems to be a strong candidate, but does anyone know who was in charge of it before Colonel Hartmann's arrival? This information would make my day.
p.1: http://shrani.si/f/3i/j3/4nm00ag0/arditi.jpg
p.2: http://shrani.si/f/3e/6G/4TydJBHk/arditi1.jpg
p.3: http://shrani.si/f/2p/cb/4WxbI8v/p3050278.jpg
I require some urgent assistance from you for my manuscript.
I am attaching below scans from Rochat's book with underlined text where he mentions this episode. It is basically quoted in all other major books about Isonzo Front, so I cannot make anywhere any double checks. This story is OK except the fact that I am having a helluva hard times to find out who was this General HON from the 4th Austro-Hungarian Infantry Brigade. I have checked the list of killed generals in WW1 and no one is matching to him, not to mention that I couldn't find any general with such a surname on the list of A-H Generals in WW1. It is not Major-General Hrozny, the commander of 57th Infantry Division nor Colonel Laxa from the 18th Inf. Brigade. So who is he??? Could he be the commander of the 5th IB of the 57th Inf. Division? I know that Colonel Gustav von Hartmann from IR.41 assumed the command of the brigade in 1917 after the battle, so this outfit brigade seems to be a strong candidate, but does anyone know who was in charge of it before Colonel Hartmann's arrival? This information would make my day.
p.1: http://shrani.si/f/3i/j3/4nm00ag0/arditi.jpg
p.2: http://shrani.si/f/3e/6G/4TydJBHk/arditi1.jpg
p.3: http://shrani.si/f/2p/cb/4WxbI8v/p3050278.jpg
