
Beautiful and very healthy troop sleeve shield for the tropical uniform
of the 4th Monviso Infantry Division.
From Wikipedia
It has its origins in the “Livorno” Brigade established on 25 March 1860 which
has the 33rd and 34th Rgt under its staff. Infantry and dissolved in 1871.
In execution of the law of 11 March 1926 on the organization of the army, which
provides for the establishment of brigades on three regiments, on 1 October
it assumes the name of IV Infantry Brigade and frames, at 33rd and 34th ° Reg. Infantry,
also the 38th Rgt. Ravenna infantry. Subsequently the brigade and the
28th Rgt. Divisional Artillery become part of the Territorial Military Division of Cuneo (4a)
. This large unit in 1934 takes the name of the Monviso Infantry Division
(4 ′ Monviso Division, that of the Scudetto in question), (4th Infantry Division MONVISO),
a name that also extends to the brigade that becomes the Monviso Infantry Brigade (IV ).
The organic changes within the brigade until 1939 concern the alternation
of the 38th Rgt. Ravenna infantry with the 44th Rgt. Infantry Forlì and the temporary transfer,
from 1935 to 1936, of the 34th Rgt. Infantry on the island of Lero, part of the
Italian possession of the Dodecanese in the Aegean. On April 5, 1939, in relation
to the organic transformation program of the infantry units, the division and the brigade
give life to the Livorno Infantry Division (4th), which hires the 33rd and 34th Rgt. Infantry
and the 28th Rgt. Divisional Artillery.