30th Infantry Division Sabauda
30th Division "Sabauda" participated in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and was reorganized as a binary division prior to the start of the East African Campaign during World War II.
Order of Battle Oct. 1935
30th Division "Sabauda" - Gen. Italo Gariboldi
- 3rd Bersaglieri Regiment
- 46th Infantry Regiment "Reggio"
- 60th Infantry Regiment "Calabria"
- 16th Artillery Regiment
- 530th MMG Bn
- 30th Replacements Bn
- 30th Engineers Coy
Notes:
- Each Army Division in the Ethiopian Campaign had a Pack-Mules unit of 3000 mules and three Regimental Trucks units (20 light trucks each).
- 3rd Bersaglieri Regiment was detached during the campaign to form the core of the Celere Column A.O..
Order of Battle June 1940
30th Division "Sabauda"
- 45th Infantry Regiment
- 46th Infantry Regiment
- 30th Mortar Battalion
- 30th Antitank Company
- 16th Artillery Regiment
- 30th Engineer Battalion
- 30th Medical Services
- 30th Supply Services[nb 1]
Notes
- Footnotes
- ↑ An Italian Infantry Division normally consisted of two Infantry Regiments (three Battalions each), an Artillery Regiment, a Mortar Battalion (two companies), an Anti Tank Company, a Blackshirt Legion (Regiment of two Battalions). Each Division had only about 7,000 men, The Infantry and Artillery Regiments contained 1,650 men, the Blackshirt Legion 1,200, each company 150 men.[1]
- Citations
- ↑ Paoletti, p 170
- Paoletti, Ciro (2008). A Military History of Italy. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-275-98505-9.