22nd Infantry Division Hunters of the Alps wide edge version, 1st Officer type

The origins of the division date back to those of the "Hunters of the Alps" Infantry Brigade, 
created on 14 March 1860 by the incorporation of the volunteer Alpine Hunters into the 51st 
and 52nd "Alps" Infantry Regiment of the Sardinian Army who had taken part in the second war 
of independence. With the dissolution of the permanent brigades in 1871, the two regiments were
 named respectively 51st and 52nd Infantry Regiment (Alps). In 1881 the "Alpi" Brigade was
 reconstituted returning to place the 51st and 52nd Infantry Regiments in its ranks.

The "Alpi" Brigade took part in the Great War; in particular in 1918 she was sent, under the
 command of Colonel Brigadier Giuseppe Garibaldi, to the western front to fight with General Albricci's
 II Italian Army Corps in France. At the end of the First World War, reconfigured on a ternary 
basis in execution of the law of 11 March 1926, it also incorporated the 81st Infantry Regiment
 "Torino" of the dissolved "Torino" Brigade, assuming the name of XXII Infantry Brigade on 25 November. 
In 1939 the brigade level was dissolved and the 22nd Infantry Division "Cacciatori delle Alpi"
 was established on the two original infantry regiments and on the 1st Artillery Regiment for the 
Infantry Division.