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Sacrario Militare di Oslavia. loculi di Carabinieri. Panoramica generale.
Military Shrine of Oslavia. tombs of Carabinieri. Overview.

slazione formulata dai discendenti, poiché le spoglie dei
Caduti per la Patria costituiscono un prezioso patrimo-
nio spirituale nazionale e, per tale motivo, lo Stato italia-
no ne cura in perpetuo le sepolture, custodendoli ed ono-
randoli solennemente.
Roberto Giannola

Guardianship
Guardianship

of the fallen
fallen

and burial sites

he General Commissariat for the Honour of the Fallen was established, – albeit with a different name, in
1919, under the direction of the Marshal of Italy Armando Diaz. The main institutional task, still provided
T for in the Code of Military Order, is the search for, collection, and final burial of the 561,000 fallen in the
First World War. Given that at the time due to practice and necessity, all the deceased soldiers had been bur-
ied in the immediate vicinity of the place of death, so those at the front directly on the battlefield and those who
died in the various health facilities (due to illness or wounds sustained in combat) and field hospitals primari-
ly in the municipal cemeteries in the area or in specially created military cemeteries. Gradually, the fallen were
transported from the places of first burial to those of definitive burial. Even today, in the event of the identifi-
cation of remains belonging to Italian soldiers who fell in the Great War, it is the duty of the General Commis-
sariat for the Honour of the Fallen to guarantee a definitive burial to those who gave their lives for Italy over a
hundred years ago.