3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna"

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3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna"
3° Reggimento "Granatieri di Sardegna"
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Regimental coat of arms
Active1849 - 11 May 1850
3rd Regiment "Guardie"
1 December 1926 - 8 September 1943
3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna"
1 January 1976 - 21 July 1992
3rd Granatieri Battalion "Guardie"
21 July 1992 - 30 April 2002
3rd Regiment "Granatieri Guardie"[1]
Country Italy
BranchItalian Army
Part ofMechanized Brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna"
Garrison/HQOrvieto
Motto(s)"A me le Guardie!"
Anniversaries18 April 1659 - Founding of the speciality
DecorationsCavaliere BAR.svg Valor militare gold medal BAR.svg
1x Military Order of Italy
1x Gold Medal of Military Valour[2][1]
Insignia
Granatieri gorget patches
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The 3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna" (Italian: 3° Reggimento "Granatieri di Sardegna") is an inactive unit of the Italian Army last based in Orvieto in Umbria. The regiment is part of the army's infantry corps' Granatieri (Grenadiers) speciality and was last operationally assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna". The regiment was disbanded on 30 April 2002.[1]

History[]

The regiment was raised by the Brigade "Guardie" on 14 October 1848 as Cacciatori Regiment in preparation for the First Italian War of Independence. On 20 April 1850 the regiment became an autonomous unit with the name Regiment "Cacciatori di Sardegna". On the same date the Brigade "Guardie" changed its name to Brigade "Granatieri". The Regiment "Cacciatori di Sardegna" was disbanded on 19 March 1852 and its two battalions integrated into the two regiments of the Brigade "Granatieri", which on the same day changed its name to Brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna".[3]

On 1 December 1926 the regiment, now named 3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna", was raised again. In 1935 the regiment's I Battalion participated in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. On 7 April 1939 the regiment with its I and III battalion was airlifted to Albania as spearhead of the Italian invasion of Albania. The unit remained in Albania and fought in the Greco-Italian War, where it earned a Gold Medal of Military Valour[2] When Italy and the Allies signed the Armistice of Cassibile the regiment was forced to surrender to superior German forces on 8 September 1943.[1]

During the 1975 army reform the II Battalion of the 80th Infantry Regiment "Roma" became the 3rd Granatieri Battalion "Guardie". The battalion was assigned the war flag of the 3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna" and joined the Mechanized Brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna" as the brigade's recruits training battalion.[1]

On 21 July 1992 battalion was elevated to 3rd Regiment "Granatieri Guardie" without changing composition or size. In 1997 the regiment left the "Granatieri di Sardegna" brigade and joined the army's Training Brigade. On 30 April 2002 the regiment was disbanded and its war flag transferred to the Shrine of the flags in the Vittoriano in Rome.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f F. dell'Uomo, R. Puletti (1998). L'Esercito Italiano verso il 2000 - Vol. Primo - Tomo I. Rome: SME - Ufficio Storico. p. 230.
  2. ^ a b "Bandiera del 3° Reggimento "Granatieri di Sardegna"". Quirinale Presidenza della Repubblica. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  3. ^ Voghera, Enrico (1909). Annuario militare del regno d'Italia - Volume I. Rome. p. 370.
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