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{{Short description|Italian medal}}
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{{infobox
| name = Gold Medal of Military
| image = [[File:Medaglia d'oro al valor militare-regno.svg|100px]] [[File:Medaglia d'oro al valor militare.svg|100px]]
| caption = Gold Medal of Military Valor<br />(Royal version & Republican version)
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The '''Gold Medal of Military
The face of the medal displayed the profile of the king, and on its reverse was a flag decoration and the words "for
On 14 August 1815, [[Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia]] replaced it with the [[Military Order of Savoy]], now known as the [[Military Order of Italy]].
[[Charles Albert of Sardinia]] revived it on 26 March 1833, and added to it the Silver and
With the proclamation of the Republic on 2 June 1946, the coat of arms of the [[House of Savoy]] was replaced with the [[Emblem of Italy|emblem of the Italian Republic]].<ref>Preceding paragraphs translated and adapted from {{cite web |url=http://bibliogo.ccm.it/index.php?page=View.DocDetail&id=742193 |title=
For actions performed by individuals during [[World War I]], the Gold Medal was awarded some 368 times, as well as 37 times to military units, and once to the Unknown Soldier. Only four of the individual awards went to foreigners, one of these being [[Czar Nicholas II]] of Russia. The other three were for acts of gallantry in which the recipient was killed in action or died from his injuries (the Frenchmen John O'Byrne and Roland Morillot, and the American Coleman deWitt).<ref>The website of the Italian Presidency: List of all recipients can be obtained by going to http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/onorificenze.aspx, going to "onorificenza" (under "Maschera di recerca"), selecting "Medaglia d'oro al valor militare" and pressing "avvia". Also see "Nel 1° Centenario della istituzione della Medaglia al Valor Militare" edizione del 1933 dell' Ufficio storico dell' esercito</ref> The Gold Medal of Military Valor was one of the most parsimoniously awarded medals of World War I, granted less frequently than even the Victoria Cross which was awarded 628 times.<ref>{{Cite book|author= P E Abbott & J M A Tamplin.|title=British Gallantry Awards.|pages=293. Nimrod Dix & Co, London, 1981
During [[World War II]] the medal was awarded to soldiers of the Royal Italian Army; after these forces were reorganized following the [[Armistice with Italy]] in 1943, it was awarded to members of the Allies-supporting [[Italian Co-Belligerent Army|Italian Co-Belligerent forces]]. The Axis-affiliated [[Italian Social Republic]] created another design of the medal, with a [[Gladius]] replacing the arms of Savoy, for members of the ''[[Esercito Nazionale Repubblicano]]'' from 1943 to 1945. This version of the award was not given recognition by the postwar Italian government.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://users.skynet.be/hendrik/eng/39italy.html |title=
The Gold Medal for Military Valor is still awarded by the Italian state, and it, along with Silver and
==Notable recipients==
The first recipient was [[Domenico Millelire]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Millelire Domenico |url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/12334 |publisher=Presidenza della Repubblica |access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref> of the [[Royal Sardinian Navy]] on 6 April 1793 and the latest recipient was in 2014 Chief Corporal-Major [[
=== Individuals ===
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* [[Andrea Adorno]]
* [[Cesare Airaghi]]
* [[Abele Ambrosini]]
* [[
* [[
* [[Antonio Locatelli]] (thrice awarded)▼
* [[Carla Capponi]]▼
* [[Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia]]▼
* [[Cesare Battisti (politician)|Cesare Battisti]]
* [[Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke]]▼
* [[Domenico Millelire]]▼
* [[Emanuele Beraudo di Pralormo]]
* [[
* [[
* [[
* [[
* [[
* [[Giuseppe Caimi]]
* [[Nicola Calipari]]▼
* [[Inigo Campioni]]▼
▲* [[Carla Capponi]]
* [[Salvo D'Acquisto]]
* [[Francesco De Rosa]]
* [[Furio Niclot Doglio]]
* [[Luigi Durand de la Penne]]▼
* [[Unatù Endisciau]]
* [[Emilio Faà di Bruno]]
* [[Giovanni Fornasini]]
* [[Giuliano Gozi]]▼
▲* [[Giuseppe Caimi]]
* [[Giuseppe Galliano]] (twice awarded)
* [[Hans-Joachim Marseille]]▼
▲* [[Inigo Campioni]]
* [[Joaquín García Morato]]
* [[
* [[Luigi Antonio Tami]]▼
* [[Luigi Arbib Pascucci]]▼
▲* [[Luigi Durand de la Penne]]
* [[Luigi Giorgi (soldier)|Luigi Giorgi]] (twice awarded)
* [[Luigi Gorrini]]
▲* [[Giuliano Gozi]]
* [[:it:Luigi Reverberi|Luigi Reverberi]]▼
* [[Amedeo Guillet]]
* [[Luigi Rizzo]] (twice awarded)▼
* [[
▲* [[Antonio Locatelli]] (thrice awarded)
▲* [[Nicola Calipari]]
* [[Orlando Lorenzini]]
* [[
* [[
* [[Umberto Masotto]]
* [[Corrado Mazzoni]]
▲* [[Domenico Millelire]]
* [[Tito Minniti]]▼
* [[Roland Morillot]]
* [[
▲* [[Luigi Arbib Pascucci]]
* [[Pietro Pedranzini]]
* [[Sandro Pertini]]
▲* [[:it:Luigi Reverberi|Luigi Reverberi]]
* [[Teseo Tesei]] ▼
▲* [[Luigi Rizzo]] (twice awarded)
▲* [[Tito Minniti]]
* [[Giovanni Romero]]
* [[Fulco Ruffo di Calabria]]
* [[Virginia Tonelli]]
* [[Enrico Toti]]
* [[Leandro Verì]]
* [[Luigi Viviani (soldier)|Luigi Viviani]]
▲* [[Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke]]
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=== Military units ===
The first military unit awarded a Gold Medal was [[His Majesty's Dragoons Regiment]] (''Reggimento Dragoni di Sua Maestà'') on 21 April 1796 for the unit's conduct during the [[Battle of Mondovì]]. Although at the time the Medal was exclusively awarded for personal bravery, King [[Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia]] ordered the regiment's [[Military colours, standards and guidons|standard]] to be decorated with two medals for saving his army from [[Napoleon]]'s attack. Until 1859, when the rules for awarding the Gold Medal were expanded to include cities and military units, only the ''"Cuneo"'' Brigade was awarded a Special Gold Medal of Military
The following list contains only the military units, which were awarded the Gold Medal of Military
* [[Regiment "Genova Cavalleria" (4th)|His Majesty's Dragoons Regiment]] (1796 [[Battle of Mondovì]], the only cavalry unit to be awarded twice)
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* 151st Infantry Regiment ''"Sassari"'' (1915–16, 1918 Italian Front)
* 152nd Infantry Regiment ''"Sassari"'' (1915–16, 1918 Italian Front)
* [[3rd Bersaglieri Regiment]] (1941–42, 1942 Eastern Front; the unit is also the custodian of the medal awarded to the III Bersaglieri Cyclists Battalion in
* [[6th Bersaglieri Regiment]] (1942, 1942-43 Eastern Front)
* [[8th Bersaglieri Regiment]] (1941-42 [[Western Desert Campaign]], 1943 [[Tunisian Campaign]])
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* [[3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment (Italy)|3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment]] (1940-41 Greco-Italian War, 1942-43 Eastern Front, the only artillery unit to be awarded twice)
The [[4th Alpini Regiment]] currently also displays two Gold Medals of Military
=== Locations ===
The first geographic entity to be awarded a Gold Medal of Military
The latest city to be awarded was [[Varzi]] for the creation and
Examples:
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=== University of Padua ===
The [[University of Padua]] is the only educational institution which was awarded a Gold Medal of Military
==See also==
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