7th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment (Italy)

The 7th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment (Italian: 7° Reggimento Artiglieria Pesante Campale) is an inactive artillery regiment of the Italian Army, which was last based in Casarsa della Delizia in Veneto and assigned to the 5th Army Corps.

The regiment was disbanded by invading German forces after the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943, while the grouping in Corsica joined the Italian Co-belligerent Army.

[1] This article is about the Royal Italian Army's 8th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment, which was a support unit assigned to a corps-level command.

The new regiment received four artillery groups, which had fought in World War I on the Italian front.

[1] On 10 April 1935, the regiment formed the 7th Army Corps Artillery Grouping for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

The depot was disbanded by invading German forces after the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943.

[1] After the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943, the grouping fought the German formations retreating through Corsica.

[3] In 1986 the Italian Army abolished the divisional level and consequently the Armored Division "Ariete" was disbanded on 30 September 1986.

On 13 July 1987 the President of the Italian Republic Francesco Cossiga confirmed the assignment of the flag of the 7th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment to the group.