The regiment is part of the army's infantry corps' Bersaglieri speciality and operationally assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Aosta".

[7][8] During World War II the regiment was assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta", with which it served in the Italian campaign in Ukraine and Russia.

[2][3][5][7][8] In 1976 the regiment's flag and traditions were assigned to the 6th Bersaglieri Battalion "Palestro", which had become an autonomous unit on 30 October 1975.

On 31 December 1861 the command was renamed 6th Bersaglieri Regiment, but continued to exert only administrative functions.

[7][8][9] The VI Battalion had been formed by the Royal Sardinian Army in 1848 with volunteers from Lombardy under command of Luciano Manara.

The battalion fought in the First Italian War of Independence and participated as "volunteer" unit in the defense of Rome during the French siege of the Roman Republic in 1849.

In 1862 the VI Battalion participated in the Battle of Aspromonte against Giuseppe Garibaldi's Redshirts, which were marching to occupy Rome.

[5][7][8][9] In 1895-96 the regiment provided 15 officers and 37 troops to help form the I, III, and IV provisional battalions, which were deployed to Eritrea for the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

In 1911, the regiment provided 22 officers and 1,215 troops to augment units fighting in the Italo-Turkish War.

In January 1915 the depot of the 6th Bersaglieri Regiment in Bologna formed the XLIX and L battalions, which initially operated as autonomous units.

[10] On 23 May 1915, the day Italy entered the war, the 6th Bersaglieri Regiment crossed the border with Austro-Hungary at Robidišče and advanced towards Kobarid.

[5][7][8][11] In June 1918 the 6th Bersaglieri Regiment was deployed at Sasso Rosso on Monte Cornone during the Second Battle of the Piave River.

During this battle the regiment's VI Cyclists Battalion suffered heavy losses fighting at Losson and then along the lower Sile river.

In October 1917 the regiment was deployed in the Carnic Alps and forced to retreat after the disastrous Battle of Caporetto.

On 7 November the regiment was surrounded by the advancing Austro-Hungarian troops and forced to surrender after having suffered 2,315 casualties in 11 days of combat.

The company was sent to Spain were it joined the Corpo Truppe Volontarie, which fought on the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War.

Later in the same month, and with the support of German tanks, the Bersaglieri repelled a Soviet attack during the first defensive battle of the Don.

After a short respite the Soviets commenced the Voronezh–Kharkov offensive on 13 January 1943 and the Axis forces had to fall back further, with the 3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" falling back towards Pavlohrad in Ukraine, where between 4 and 19 February 1943 the 6th Bersaglieri Regiment held its positions against repeated Soviet attacks.

[7][8][13] After the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943 the regiment was disbanded by invading German forces.

[8][7][13] On 1 October 1969 the VI Bersaglieri Battalion was reformed as a mechanized unit of the 22nd Armored Infantry Regiment "Cremona".

[14] On 12 November 1976 the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone assigned with decree 846 the flag and traditions of the 6th Bersaglieri Regiment to the battalion.