This article contains a list of battles and military campaigns with most Italian military deaths.

Introduction This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of Italian military fatalities exceed 1,000. The term casualty in warfare refers to a soldier who is no longer fit to fight being in combat. Casualties can include killed, wounded, missing, captured or deserted.

In this article the numbers of killed refer to those killed in action, killed by disease, missing presumed dead, or someone who died from their wounds.

Battles Battle or siege Conflict DateEstimated number killed Opposing forceReferences Battle of Stalingrad World War II Soviet Union Tenth Battle of the Isonzo World War I Austria-Hungary Thompson, Mark (2008) The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919, Faber and Faber, London P251 Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo World War I Austria-Hungary Germany Schindler, John R. (2001). Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War. Praeger. ISBN 0275972046. OCLC 44681903. Third Battle of the Isonzo World War I Austria-Hungary Battle of Caporetto World War I Austria-Hungary Germany Second Battle of the Piave River World War I Austria-Hungary Tucker, Spencer. "World War I: Encyclopedia, Volume 1". Page 919. Fourth Battle of the Isonzo World War I Austria-Hungary Battle of Vittorio Veneto World War I Austria-Hungary Battle of Gorizia (1916) World War I Austria-Hungary Ivan Bruno Zabeo, Dolesi al fronte. La prima guerra mondiale, p. 318 Battle of Adwa First Italo-Ethiopian War Ethiopia Battle of Gela (1943) World War II United States United Kingdom Andrea Augello, Uccidi gli italiani: Gela 1943, la battaglia dimenticata, Mursia, Milano 2009, p. 120.Part of the 5,000 wounded are also included among the 2,000 prisoners. Total casualties of the Livorno Division numbered 214 officers and 7,000 men, of whom 1,300 were taken prisoner (Alberto Santoni, Le operazioni in Sicilia e in Calabria, Italian Army Historical Branch, 1989, p. 201). Battle of Keren World War II British Empire United Kingdom India Sudan Free France Battle of Guadalajara Spanish Civil War Spanish Republic International Brigades Thomas, Hugh.The Spanish Civil War. Penguin Books. London. 2001. p.585 Battle of Sidi Barrani World War II United Kingdom Australia Free France Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) Crimean War Russia Greek Volunteer Legion John Sweetman, Crimean War, Essential Histories 2, Osprey Publishing, 2001, , p. 89 Battle of Bardia World War II Australia United Kingdom Battle of Amba Alagi (1895) First Italo-Ethiopian War Ethiopia Battle of Flondar World War I Austria-Hungary Battle of Novara (1849) First Italian War of Independence Austria Siege of Tobruk World War II Australia United Kingdom Poland Czechoslovakia Siege of Brescia First Italian War of Independence Austria Colburn, Henry (1860). The United service magazine, Part 1. London.

Campaigns Campaign Conflict DateEstimated number killed Opposing forceReferences Battles of the Isonzo World War I Austria-Hungary Germany (1917) Operation Achse World War II Germany Croatia Romania North African campaign World War II United Kingdom India Newfoundland Free France Australia New Zealand South Africa United States Poland Greece Czechoslovakia German invasion of Greece (part of the Balkans campaign) World War II Greece United Kingdom Australia New Zealand East African campaign World War II United Kingdom British Raj Australia New Zealand South Africa Kenya Nigeria Gold Coast British Somaliland Northern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia Uganda Nyasaland Ethiopia Belgium Congo Free France Battle of Asiago World War I Austria-Hungary Data for the period 15 May - 31 July 1916, from the diary of the First Army, in: Gianni Pieropan, 1916. Le montagne scottano, Tamari editori, Bologna, 1968, p. 214. Senussi campaign World War I Senussi Order Ottoman Empire Operation Compass (part of the Western Desert campaign and the North African campaign) World War II United Kingdom India Southern Rhodesia Australia Free France Allied invasion of Sicily (part of the Italian campaign) World War II United States United Kingdom Canada Free France Australia Tunisian campaign (part of the North African campaign) World War II United Kingdom India Newfoundland Free France Australia New Zealand South Africa United States Greece Macedonian front (part of the Balkan campaign) World War I Bulgaria Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Ministero della Difesa: L’Esercito italiano nella Grande Guerra (1915–1918), vol. VII: Le operazioni fuori del territorio nazionale: Albania, Macedonia, Medio Oriente, t. 3° bis: documenti, Rome 1981, Parte Prima, doc. 77, p. 173 and Parte Seconda, doc. 78, p. 351; Mortara, La salute pubblica in Italia 1925, p. 37. Christmas Offensive Second Italo-Ethiopian War Ethiopia Time, February 10, 1936. Operation Weiss (part of the Yugoslav Front) World War II Yugoslav Partisans IV. neprijateljska ofenziva – Unternehmen Weiss II: Bitka na Neretvi Italian invasion of Libya Italo-Turkish War Ottoman Empire Senussi Order

See also List of battles with most French military fatalities

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