21st Engineer Regiment (Italy)
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The 21st Engineer Regiment (Italian: 21° Reggimento Genio Guastatori) is a military engineer regiment of the Italian Army based in Caserta in Campania. Today the regiment is the engineer unit of the Bersaglieri Brigade "Garibaldi". In 1937 the regiment was formed and assigned to the XXI Army Corps, which was based in the Cyrenaica in eastern Libya. During World War II the regiment formed engineer units for the Italian forces fighting in the Western Desert Campaign. After the Axis defeat in the Second Battle of El Alamein and the British conquest of Cyrenaica the regiment was declared lost.[4][2]
21st Engineer Regiment | |
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21° Reggimento Genio Guastatori | |
Active | 1 Oct. 1937 — Nov. 1942 1 Oct. 1975 — today[1][2] |
Country | Italy |
Branch | Italian Army |
Role | Combat engineers |
Part of | Bersaglieri Brigade "Garibaldi" |
Garrison/HQ | Caserta |
Motto(s) | "Tutto osare" |
Anniversaries | 24 June 1918 - Second Battle of the Piave River |
Decorations | 1x Silver Medal of Army Valor 1x Bronze Medal of Army Valor 1x Bronze Cross of Army Merit 1x Gold Medal of Civil Merit 1x Bronze Medal of Civil Merit[3] |
Insignia | |
Sappers gorget patches |
Reformed in 1953 as a battalion the unit was assigned in 1963 to the III Missiles Brigade. In 1975 the battalion was named for the Timavo river and assigned the flag and traditions of the 21st Engineer Regiment. At the end of 1979 the battalion moved to Caserta in the South of Italy. In 1993 the battalion entered the reformed regiment.[1][2] The regimental anniversary falls, as for all engineer units, on June 24, the end of the Second Battle of the Piave River in 1918.[4]