16 Sept. 1883 - 21 July 1919 4 Aug. 1919 - 8 Dec. 1942 1 Oct. 1975 - 15 April 2005
Country
Italy
Branch
Italian Army
Part of
Mechanized Brigade "Aosta"
Garrison/HQ
Trapani
Motto(s)
"Victoria Nobis Vita"
Anniversaries
18 June 1836
Decorations
1x Military Order of Italy 1x Gold Medal of Military Valor 3x Silver Medals of Military Valor 1x Silver Medal of Army Valor
Insignia
Bersaglieri gorget patches
Military unit
The 12th Bersaglieri Regiment (Italian: 12° Reggimento Bersaglieri) is an inactive unit of the Italian Army last based in Trapani in Sicily. The regiment is part of the Italian Army's infantry corps' Bersaglieri speciality and was last operationally assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Aosta". The regiment was formed in 1883 by the Royal Italian Army with preexisting battalions. During World War I the regiment served on the Italian front. After the war the regiment was disbanded for short time, before it was reformed in August 1919.[1][2]
During World War II the regiment was assigned to the 133rd Armored Division "Littorio", with which it participated in the Western Desert campaign. In November 1942 the division and regiment were destroyed during the Second Battle of El Alamein. In 1961 the regiment's XXIII Bersaglieri Battalion was reformed and assigned to the 182nd Armored Infantry Regiment "Garibaldi". In 1964 the battalion was transferred to the 32nd Tank Regiment. In 1975 the battalion became an autonomous unit as 23rd Bersaglieri Battalion "Castel di Borgo" and was assigned the flag and traditions of the 12th Bersaglieri Regiment. The battalion was assigned to the 32nd Armored Brigade "Mameli" until 1991, when it was transferred to the 132nd Armored Brigade "Ariete". In 1992 the battalion moved to Sicily, where it joined the Mechanized Brigade "Aosta". The same year the battalion lost its autonomy and entered the reformed 12th Bersaglieri Regiment. In 2005 the regiment was renamed 6th Bersaglieri Regiment and the flag of the 12th Bersaglieri Regiment was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome. The regiment's anniversary falls, as for all Bersaglieri units, on 18 June 1836, the day the Bersaglieri speciality was founded.[1][2]
^ ab"12° Reggimento Bersaglieri". Italian Army. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
^ abF. dell'Uomo, R. Puletti (1998). L'Esercito Italiano verso il 2000 - Vol. Primo - Tomo I. Rome: SME - Ufficio Storico. p. 442.
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