The 27th Artillery Regiment "Marche" (Italian: 27° Reggimento Artiglieria "Marche") is an inactive field artillery regiment of the Italian Army, which was based in Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

The division and regiment were located on the Greek island of Samos in the Eastern Aegean Sea, when the Armistice of Cassibile was announced on 8 September 1943.

In 1964 the regiment was transferred to the V Army Corps and moved from Milan to Udine.

In October 1985 the regiment was reduced 27th Heavy Self-propelled Artillery Group "Marche" and equipped with M110A2 howitzers.

The ceded batteries had participated in 1860-1861 in the campaign to conquer central and southern Italy and fought in the Battle of Castelfidardo in the Marche region.

In 1866 the batteries had participated in the Third Italian War of Independence and fought in the Battle of Custoza.

[2] During the war the regiment served on the Italian front, where the regiment's I and II group were deployed in 1915 on Cima Cadì and the Tonale Pass, while the III Group fought in the Third Battle of the Isonzo at Peteano and Marcottini and in November of the year in the Fourth Battle of the Isonzo on Monte San Michele.

In June the group was again on Monte San Michele, before it moved to Nova Vas and the Pečinka.

The rest of the year the group was deployed on Monte Volkovniak and on Veliki Hrib.

During the decisive Battle of Vittorio Veneto the regiment was again on the Tonale Pass, from where it followed retreating Austro-Hungarian troops down the Val di Sole to Bolzano, where the news of the Armistice of Villa Giusti reached the regiment.

During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War the regiment formed the 13th and 124th veterinary infirmaries, which were deployed to East Africa.

11 field guns to the 41st Artillery Regiment "Firenze", which in turn transferred its III Group with 75/18 mod.

After the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943 the division fought German forces with British support in the Dodecanese campaign until 21 November, when the division's remaining troops sailed to Turkey.

[2][3] On 10 May 1954 the regiment formed a Light Aircraft Section with L-21B artillery observation planes.

On 10 October 1958 the III Group received M44 self-propelled howitzers and became an active unit.

Renamed 27th Heavy Self-propelled Artillery Regiment and assigned to V Army Corps, the regiment incorporated the units of the disbanded 155th Self-propelled Anti-tank Artillery Regiment and consisted of a command, a command unit, the I and II groups, which had just switched from M36 tank destroyers to M107 self-propelled guns, and the CXIII Anti-tank Group with M36 tank destroyers.

[6] On 1 September 1977 the regiment was transferred from the 5th Army Corps to the 3rd Missile Brigade "Aquileia".

On 10 October of the same year the II Group was placed in reserve status and the regiment was disbanded.

The next day the group entered the reformed 27th Heavy Self-propelled Artillery Regiment "Marche".