The very obscure collar patches for the militarized civilian personnel:
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militarized civilian personnel 2:Comment
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What a great thread my friend
and nicely done.
Good to see it pinned for collectors interested in insignia.
Best regards
Paul.Comment
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Ciao Paolo
Many thanks
1940 two-pointed flames on rectangle:Comment
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Two-pointed flames with piping:
- Young Fascists Regiment
- Royal Finance GuardComment
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Basic drawings of Italian wartime insignia (half-blue for motorized units):Comment
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Royal Carabineers (Military Police)
- left italian personnel
- right albanian personnelComment
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A tribute to the Messina and Friuli Infantry Regiments:Comment
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A small digression from the main theme.
The original color chart of the 1938 service uniforms for male staff in the civil roles of the stateComment
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Returning to the main theme.
Two other examples of 1940 composite collar patches:
- Medical officer of the Puglie Infantry Division
- Engineers' officer of the Brennero Infantry DivisionComment
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This is a very hybrid case: open collar and WW1 insignia. It was used for a very short period of time from November 14, 1933 to May 27, 1935 before the adoption of the definitive rectangular type by the non-commissioned officers and troops of the divisional infantry. In this case 24th Infantry Regiment Como:Comment
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The evolution of the braids of the General Staff:
left: 1914 (during my life I saw only one specimen of them in the shop of a well-known Roman seller about forty years' ago)
right: 1940 (superimposed on the two-pointed red flames on blue background rectangle of an armored unit)Comment
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Some other examples of composite wartime collar patches:Comment
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Now I will give a try and I hope the image will be not too big. In my files I have since a long time the schematism of all the possible combinations of the collar patches of all the Italian divisions and departments of the Second World War. As far as I am aware, I have never seen it published by anyone. Now I try to load the first one: north African self-transportable infantry divisionsComment
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Well The file is not too big. Air and self transportable divisions 1:
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