Italian tank badge id

[nickn]

Please could someone id this badge for me

[nickn]

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[andrea]

Please could someone id this badge for me

IV gruppo corazzato Nizza part of the 1st Regiment Nizza Cavalry
IV group was created on 1942 , based on Armoured cars AB 41 , and sent to Albania, where it surrender after 8 of september 1943 to the Germans.
The latin motto on the badge Nicaea fidelis ( Nizza faithful) is the acient motto of the Cavalry Dragons.
Beautiful badge
Ciao
Andrea

[nickn]

Thank you Andrea
Is it an official cap badge?

[andrea]

Thank you Andrea
Is it an official cap badge?

Not for the cap ( as the british style ) italians used to dress division/regiment pins above/on left pocket of the jacket..
below a photo of one armoured car in Tirana of the Nizza

[Ironcrown]

Nizza Cavalleria

[Semovente]

Hmmm very nice find nickn...

[mufasa]

Very nice and uncommon badge !!


this badge is valid both for the III "Gruppo Autoblindato Nizza" (all on armoured cars, two squadrons for a total of 54 (??) AB41 , in Africa from May 1942 to the end, and for the IV "Gruppo Nizza" misto (with 21 armored cars + 15 tank L6/40) always transferred in May 1942 in Albania ...


some notice ando photo here...


http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=Nizza&page=13

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=Nizza&page=14


up: military post of the end of 1942 form a NCO of the Armoured (corazzato) Group IV of Nizza Cavalleria from Tirana (PM 22)

down : from an officer of the Armoured Cars of the Nizza sent from Tunisia just before the surrender (PM 600)

[andrea]

Very nice and uncommon badge !!


this badge is valid both for the III "Gruppo Autoblindato Nizza" (all on armoured cars, two squadrons for a total of 54 (??) AB41 , in Africa from May 1942 to the end, and for the IV "Gruppo Nizza" misto (with 21 armored cars + 15 tank L6/40) always transferred in May 1942 in Albania ...


some notice ando photo here...


http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=Nizza&page=13

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=Nizza&page=14


up: military post of the end of 1942 form a NCO of the Armoured (corazzato) Group IV of Nizza Cavalleria from Tirana (PM 22)

down : from an officer of the Armoured Cars of the Nizza sent from Tunisia just before the surrender (PM 600)

Ciao Mufasa , do you mean that the Third Nizza dress a badge with the number IV?
They used the same badge? Is it correct? Number IV it is referred to the entire "tank Group"?
Andrea

[mufasa]

Ciao Mufasa , do you mean that the Third Nizza dress a badge with the number IV?
They used the same badge? Is it correct? Number IV it is referred to the entire "tank Group"?
Andrea

not exactly Andrea:
I had read an old article, on Militaria, the attachment of Diana Armi 15/20 years ago (I try to find it) on this badge of the IV and a contemporary order to Loiroli (? if I remember right) with an analogue for III a little later not delivered (or manufactured) for the war events of the III in Tunisia .... there should be in the article a design or the prototype .... I look for it...




ciao Oriano

[andrea]

IV/III Nizza

Ok Oriano! So the story became complicated😀...I also will try to find some thing about that..
Ciao
Andrea