italian collars

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Pre-war collar of the close-support batteries (65/17 mm) of the infantry regiments

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Commanding General, Grenadiers, Artillery and Engineers of the Sardinia Grenadiers

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Savoy Grenadiers' Artillery

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Since I believe that many designs related to the collar patches of coastal troops have disappeared in the cone of amnesia, I am putting some bases back:

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Fulvio Balisti (1890-1959), two silver and one bronze medal for military valor, three times promoted for war merits during the WW1. Legionario Fiumano, Head of the Secretariat of D'Annunzio. In 1940 commander of the G.I.L. of Bologna, later called the 1st Battalion of the Battalions' Group GG.FF. and sent to Northern Africa. Seriously injured (with leg amputation at the 132nd Armored Division Ariete field hospital on December 5, 1941) in the second battle of Bir el Gobi, this is the reason for his third silver medal: 52-year-old war volunteer , although wounded several times in a previous campaign, he led his battalion to the baptism of fire with youthful boldness. Wounded so badly that he had to undergo a leg amputation, he said he was glad he had once again offered his blood to the homeland. Fallen prisoner and repatriated in April 1943, following an exchange of prisoners of war, he had important positions during the RSI but was dismissed for having supported the strike of the workers of a factory in Brescia and because he was suspected of being close to the Prince Borghese and arch-enemy of Pavolini.
This is an example of the collar patches of the officers in charge (in this case from the Grenadiers, such as Balisti) of the training of the young volunteers (left) and the volunteers themselves (right)

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With a not-short research I found a good part of the images ended up in the cone of amnesia. Let's start with the MVSN

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Some collar patches

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Legionnaire of Africa

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Two works by Tullia Socin of 1938-1939: The Wounded Legionnaire and Medal to Memory

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Officers of the Youth Organizations

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Meeting of the European Youth Organizations

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Propaganda postcards of the MVSN

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Vice-Brigadier of the Royal Guardia di Finanza belonging to the mobilized battalions, from the three-volume work of Philip Jowett to which I collaborated extensively

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Airforce Academy and Douhet School

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Navy Morosini School and Academy