7th CBRN Defense Regiment "Cremona"

Today the regiment is based in Civitavecchia in Lazio and assigned to the Artillery Command.

In 1939 the regiment was assigned to the 44th Infantry Division "Cremona", which was deployed in Corsica when the Armistice of Cassibile was announced on 8 September 1943.

The division then joined the Italian Co-belligerent Army and was reorganized as Combat Group "Cremona".

[1][6] After the war the regiment was based in Turin and remained the artillery unit of the Infantry Division "Cremona".

In 1975 the regiment was reduced to 7th Field Artillery Group "Adria" and assigned to the Motorized Brigade "Cremona".

In 1997 the regiment left the Mechanized Brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna" and was reorganized as a CBRN defense unit.

This article is about the Italian Army's 7th Field Artillery Regiment, which is a support unit assigned to a division-level command.

[6] After the Second Italian War of Independence the Kingdom of Sardinia annexed on 22 March 1860 the Royal Provinces of Emilia and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

In 1895-96 the regiment provided personnel and materiel to form the 7th Battery, which was deployed to Eritrea for the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

The regiment also provided two officers and 178 troops to augment other units deployed for the war.

During the Italo-Turkish War in 1911-12 the regiment's 6th Battery participated in May 1912 in the occupation of Rhodes in the Dodecanese and was then transferred to Libya.

During the war the regiment was deployed initially on the Karst plateau, before being transferred to the Tolmin sector.

In 1918 the regiment was in the Montello hill and in fall of the year at Vidor during the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.

[1][6] In 1926 the regiment was assigned to the 20th Territorial Division of Livorno and consisted of a command, one group with 100/17 mod.

In February 1941 the division was ordered to move to northern Sardinia for coastal defense duties.

06 field guns to the 40th Artillery Regiment "Calabria" and received a group with 75/13 mod.

After the Armistice of Cassibile was announced on 8 September 1943 the two infantry divisions and French partisans immediately went on the offensive against the German Sturmbrigade Reichführer-SS and 90th Panzergrenadier Division, which had crossed over from Sardinia and retreated through Corsica towards the harbor of Bastia in the island's north.

[1][6][10] The division joined the Italian Co-belligerent Army and on 25 September 1944 it was reorganized in Altavilla Irpina as Combat Group "Cremona", which was equipped with British weapons and materiel.

The regiment was now organized as follows:[6] The combat group entered the front on 12 January 1945 as part of British V Corps and participated in the liberation of Ravenna, Alfonsine, and Torre Primaro.

When allied forces achieved a major breakthrough during the 1945 spring offensive the combat group advanced towards Venice and liberated Adria, Cavarzere, Chioggia, Mestre, and finally Venice on 30 April 1945.

Afterwards the regiment consisted of a command, a command unit, and the I and II groups with QF 25-pounder field guns, and reformed in course of the year the III Group with QF 25-pounder field guns.

The same year regiment disbanded its III Group with QF 25-pounder field guns.

[1][6][7] On 12 November 1976 the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone assigned with decree 846 the flag and traditions of the 7th Field Artillery Regiment "Cremona" to the group.

The next day, on 21 September 1995, the personnel and materiel of the 13th Self-propelled Field Artillery Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna" were used to form the 7th Self-propelled Field Artillery Regiment "Cremona", which was assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna".

7th CBRN Defense Regiment "Cremona" decontamination station during the NATO exercise War Horse Forge in Latvia in January 2025
7th CBRN Defense Regiment "Cremona" VBR NBC Plus vehicle during an exercise