The Helmets of The Bersaglieri

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Found this, pretty cool, showing the various helmets the feathers were worn on over the yeats

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Anyone have an idea how the Feathers were attached when worn with the British helmet?

[RRA227]

Maybe they use the same plume holder but a different mount.  Rich A. in Pa.

[SteveB]

Here's a link that shows the he fixing for the M33 https://cascoscoleccion.com/italia/ital33c1.html, I would image its a modification of that because the feathers would have the same form. I would definitely like to see an original example.

 

Steve.

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Thank you RRA227 and SteveB

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Caught in the Wind during a training exercise, the feathers are not real ones anymore, but synthetic.

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A Bersaglieri Armored Car Crewmen in Africa has attached the Feathers to the Tank Helmet. Interesting looking man, looks more German or English than Italian right.

 

 

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In the USSR with the 3rd Bersaglieri Regiment 3rd Fast Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" August 1941.

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In the Desert, the weapons is a 20mm Solothurn S-18/100.

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Today

[Bearzot]

On 8/26/2024 at 1:37 AM, patches said:

A Bersaglieri Armored Car Crewmen in Africa has attached the Feathers to the Tank Helmet. Interesting looking man, looks more German or English than Italian right.

 

 

Actually, no. Italians have a Latin appearance with darker skin, but in the north there is also a look with very fair skin, blond hair, and light-colored eyes. The child below is my father; he has 100% Italian ancestry on both his father’s and mother’s side.

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9th Bersaglieri Regiment  101st Motorized Division "Trieste", or if you like, 9° Reggimento Bersaglieri 101ª Divisione Motorizzata "Trieste, Tobruk. Gives a excellent  view of Pith Helmet, it's Helmet Plate and Feathers,

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 A Colonel Aminto Caretto WWI

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Bersaglieri where big users of bicycles, a 1910 photo, folding bikes, I think the Carraio folding bicycle.

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Bersaglieri seems to have briefly used this one, the example here I posted is I believe is in a, or one of, an Italian Army Museum.

 

In 1875, some Bersaglieri and seven men from the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment from the Milan barracks participated in a cycle race with heavy (over 30 kg) wooden and steel, bone shaker velocipede bikes. The ride was terribly hard and officers were forbidden to be seen riding a boneshaker.

 

The bone shaker velocipedes had pedals, wooden wheels with a steel rim and were most uncomfortable to ride.

 

In 1878, some bone shaker velocipedes took part in the large army maneuvers in the Marche region in Italy (Ancona) but they were still viewed with scepticism by the army authorities.