Decorations
The 4th Alpini Regiment is the highest decorated regiment of the Italian Army.
- 1x Knight Cross of the Military Order of Italy for service in World War I
- 2x Gold Medals of Military Valor:
- 1x for the conquest of Monte Solarolo, 25-27 October 1918
- 1x for the Italian campaign in the Soviet Union, 1942-1943
- 9x Silver Medals of Military Valor
- 1x for the conquest of the saddle between Monte Nero and Monte Rosso, 19-21 July, 1915
- 1x for the conquest and defense of the Austrian positions on Alpe di Cosmagnon, 10 September and 9-12 October 1916)
- 1x for the conquest of Monte Vodice, 18-21 May 1917
- 1x for service during the battles of Monte Vodice, 26-30 May 1917, Monte Melette, 17-26 November 1917 and Monte Fior, 4 December 1917
- 1x for operations on Monte Solarolo, 24-28 Octobre 1918
- 1x for the defense of the Mecan Pass during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, 31 March 1936
- 1x for service during the Greco-Italian War, 10 January to 23 April 1941
- 1x for the refusal to surrender to German Forces after the armistice of September 1943 and the subsequent service with Yugoslav partisans in Montenegro, September to November 1943
- 1x for service with the Italian Co-Belligerent Army during the Italian liberation campaign, 18 March 1944 to 8 May 1945
- 1x Bronze Medal of Military Valor for defensive operations during the Greco-Italian War, 24-26 January 1941
- 1x Silver Medal of Civil Valor for service after the 1957 Piedmont floods
- 1x Silver Medal of Civil Merit for service after the 1908 Messina earthquake
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