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Abbreviations for Archives

ADN: Fondazione Archivio Diaristico Nazionale, Pieve Santo Stefano (AR)
ASBZ: Staatsarchiv Bozen/Archivio di Stato di Bolzano
AUSSME: Archivio Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito, Roma
AVA: Allgemeines Verwaltungsarchiv, Wien
GA Innichen: Gemeindearchiv Innichen/Archivio comunale di San Candido
GA Sexten: Gemeindearchiv Sexten/Archivio comunale di Sesto
ISCAG: Istituto Storico e di Cultura dell’Arma del Genio, Roma
KA: Kriegsarchiv, Wien
MCRR: Museo Centrale del Risorgimento, Roma
MSIGR: Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Rovereto
NWT: Neues Wiener Tagblatt
SLA: Südtiroler Landesarchiv/Archivio della Provincia di Bolzano
StABk: Stadtarchiv Bruneck/Archivio storico di Brunico
TAP: Tiroler Archiv für photographische Dokumentation und Kunst, Lienz-Bruneck
TLA: Tiroler Landesarchiv, Innsbruck
TLMF: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
ZEG: Zentrum für Erinnerungskultur, Innsbruck

Military diaries

Each Italian military unit was obligated to keep a daily diary in order to report the main events. This was edited by the highest ranking officer. Often, in these diaries, there are also notes on climate, weather conditions, and temperature. Today, all of these diaries (at least those that have been delivered – in fact sometimes a few months are missing) are kept in the archive of the Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore, in Rome. As far as the Three Peaks sector is concerned, the diaries consulted are as follows:

Infantry
– Diario 23° Reggimento Fanteria (AUSSME_B1_131D_223-224-225d)
– Diario 55° Reggimento Fanteria (AUSSME_B1_133D_588C)
– Diario 56° Reggimento Fanteria (AUSSME_B1_133D_591C)
– Diario 8° Reggimento Bersaglieri (AUSSME_B1_137S_1748c)

Alpini troops
– Diario Brigata Marche (AUSSME_B1_133D_591C)
– Diario 7° Reggimento Alpini (AUSSME_B1_141D_2011B)
– Diario Battaglione Val Piave (AUSSME_B1_141S_2027B)

Military Engineers
– Diario 137° Compagnia Zappatori del Genio (AUSSME_B1_145E_87d)
– Diario 151° Compagnia Zappatori del Genio (AUSSME_B1_145E_89d)
– Diario 16° Compagnia Minatori del Genio (AUSSME_B1_146-4_152f)

Artillery
– Diario Comando Artiglieria (AUSSME_B1_130s_89e)
– Diario Comando 3° Sottosettore Cadore (AUSSME_B1_130s_87e)
– Diario Comando Lavaredo-Oberbacher (AUSSME_B1_130s_88e)
– Diario 1° Corpo d’Armata (AUSSME_B1_110D_4A)

Commands
– Diario Comando 3° Sottosettore Cadore (AUSSME_B1_130s_87e)
– Diario Comando Lavaredo-Oberbacher (AUSSME_B1_130s_88e)
– Diario 1° Corpo d’Armata (AUSSME_B1_110D_4A)