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VSC,I know that. I would have to find my Order of Battle for Ital. units to know what unit was where.I have seen pics of visor caps with brass badges. None of mine have brass insignia.Mine are bullion.I sent pics of items in my collection to Rex Trye for his books. Rich A. in Pa.

That would be interesting to find out. I have no problems ID'ing Italian Infantry, Artillery, alpini ,Bersaglieri and Militia units OOB. I do however have a very limited knowledge to Italian sappers units, its formation and deployment. Do you have any info Italian sappers? Preferably a list of which engineer units went to North Africa?

I have seen your collection before, through another forum. Its the most extensive collection of Italian badges ive ever seen.

Brass badges were used on the sun helmet as well as visor caps by the Italians. Rich A. in Pa.

Indeed Rich , But not all Italian divisions / corps/ Army components served in North Africa and were assigned pith helmets. Nothing worse then looking at an Italian pith helmet with a badge that never saw African soil.

regards

That is a 1930s to WW2 italian pith helmet badge.

It is an Italian ww2 to pre ww2 Italian engineers badge . i have the identical badge in my collection. I don't think it is a pith helmet badge though. Im not sure if the 1ST engineers corps served in North Africa.