Peter Giraldi was born in Pirano (Istria) in the second half of the 1800's in a modest family where his father was a customs employee and his mother a housewife. Since he was joung he was educated militarily in the Inferior Real School of Güns in order to continue his studies at the Academy of Wiener-Neustadt. He knew perfectly the Italian and German languages as the dialects of Trieste and Istria, which will facilitate him in its future career in the command of one of the 4 Battalions of its future Regiment, the 97^th Infantry Regiment. At first he served as Officer at the 101st Hungarian Infantry Regiment when, between 1909 and 1910, with the rank of Captain he was transferred to the 97th Infantry Regiment. From 1910 to the 6^th of January 1916 he had the command of one of the 4 Battalions of the Regiment, when the Commander of the Regiment Colonel Gheri left him the Command for seniority after the reprehensible and absurd episode of the military review of the Commander of the Army His Excellence the General of Cavalry von Pflanzer-Baltin. He guided the Regiment until the end of the same month when he was replaced by the actual new Commander. This short period of command was the most important for the Regiment as Major Peter Giraldi was one of the supporters of the protest letter which has been sent to the High Command, the Supreme Army Command and to the Emperor (with the help of General Catinelli) that made the arrogant Cavalry General take his words back about what he said on the honour and valour of the Officer's Staff and the 97^th Regiment itself. In October 1917 Major Giraldi was promoted to the rank of Leutenant colonel and definitively assumed the command of his Regiment and will hold it until the 13^th of March 1918. After november 1918 Triest and the whole istrian coast became italian territory and all its inhabitants consequently to it. So was for Colonel Giraldi who became Italian automatically and due to this for the first years he got no pension. In 1920 he went to Trieste for regulating his rights for the pension and he also went to his native city: Pirano. Here he was recognized from some who served in the 97^th , he was insulted while people wanted to throw him to sea. He was rescued by the Police officers who temporarely arrested him. The Italian Government of that time wanted to sentence Giraldi for the executions of some soldiers of the 97^th during the war. Saved from this situation from some other comrades of the 97^th they made him escape in a night of fog in Austria.In spring of 1924 he died in a street of Graz. He died for hunger after that for years he lived daily with some spoons of rice, black coffee and nicotine. Tragic destiny of a valorous good typical old Austrian Officer!