He participated in the Italo-Turkish War (where he earned a Bronze Medal of Military Valor for his role in the capture of Sidi Said in July 1912), after which he was appointed military attaché at the Italian Embassy in Berlin.

He participated in the First World War with the rank of captain and later major (from 1917), being assigned in 1917 to the Garda-Mincio Defense Command and subsequently commanding the 122nd and 167th Siege Artillery Groups, the Volunteer Corps Siege Artillery Group and the II Group of the 35th Field Artillery Regiment; in June 1918 he was awarded a War Cross of Military Valor for his role in the Second Battle of the Piave River.

Having been transferred to the Army reserve in March 1940, he was retained in active service because he was recognized as indispensable to the special service he was assigned to; he continued directing the Army optical glass factory during most of World War II.

[1][2][3] After the Armistice of Cassibile and the German occupation of Rome in September 1943, Artale joined the Resistance, becoming part of the Clandestine Military Front.

He had the plants of the Army glass factory sabotaged, for which he was arrested by the Gestapo on 9 December 1943; after three months of imprisonment and torture, he was executed in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre on 24 March 1944.