In 1849, the Royal Sardinian Army formed the 3rd Grenadier Guards Regiment for the second campaign of the First Italian War of Independence.

In 1939, the regiment left the 21st Infantry Division "Granatieri di Sardegna" and became an autonomous unit.

After the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943 the regiment was disbanded by invading German forces.

[2] The regiment's anniversary falls, as for all grenadiers units, on 18 April 1659, the day the Granatieri speciality was founded.

[2] On 23 March 1848, the First Italian War of Independence between the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Austrian Empire began.

In this form the brigade fought in 1848 in the battles of Pastrengo, Santa Lucia, Goito, Sommacampagna, Staffalo, Custoza, and Milan.

On 9 August 1848, the first campaign of the war ended with the Armistice of Salasco and the Royal Sardinian Army retreated from the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia.

On 24 March, the new King met with the Austrian Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky at Vignale and agreed to an armistice, which ended the First Italian War of Independence.

The regiment also provided eleven officers and 130 troops to units deployed to East Africa for the war.

For its service and conduct in Ethiopia the I Battalion was awarded, as were all other infantry units that had served in the war, a Military Order of Italy, which was affixed to the flag of the 3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna".

[2] At the outbreak of World War II the 3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna e d'Albania" consisted of a command, a command company, three grenadier battalions, a support weapons battery equipped with 65/17 infantry support guns, and a mortar company equipped with 81mm Mod.

In November 1940, the Littoral Grouping fought in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas against Greek forces, and after crossing the Kalamas river at Cape Kepi i Stilit.

After the German invasion of Greece and the Greek surrender, the regiment was assigned to the 11th Army and moved to Athens as occupation force.

The XXXII Anti-tank Battalion was assigned to the II Army Corps, which in summer 1942 deployed to the Eastern Front.

[2] In the evening of 8 September 1943, the Armistice of Cassibile, which ended hostilities between the Kingdom of Italy and the Anglo-American Allies, was announced by General Dwight D. Eisenhower on Radio Algiers and by Marshal Pietro Badoglio on Italian radio.

Shortly after the announcement of the armistice the 3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna e d'Albania" was disbanded by German forces.

On 12 November 1976, the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone assigned with decree 846 the flag and traditions of the 3rd Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna" to the battalion.