During World War II the regiment was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division "Eugenio di Savoia", which was deployed to occupied Yugoslavia on anti-partisan duty.

[1][2][3] In 1964, the Italian Army formed a squadrons group, which received the name and traditions of the regiment.

By 19h in the evening of 4 August, the Sardinian troops retreated within the walls of Milan, where one hour later King Charles Albert held a war council, which decided to abandon the city due to a lack of munitions and food.

With the Sardinian troops also thousands of Milanese civilians and the military units of the Provisional Government of Milan, crossed the Ticino.

Three days later, on 9 August, the Austrian General Heinrich von Heß and the Sardinian General Carlo Canera di Salasco signed an armistice, which stated that Charles Albert's troops would withdraw from the whole of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, and the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza and Duchy of Modena and Reggio.

However, early on 20 March General Ramorino abandoned La Cava and moved his forces South across the Po river, leaving only the 21st Infantry Regiment at La Cava with orders to retreat across the Po river if the regiment was attacked.

At noon on the same day the whole Austrian Army crossed the Ticino river at Pavia and, even though the 21st Infantry Regiment led Major Luciano Manara resisted for six hours, the Austrians fixed the 21st Infantry Regiment in place with a screening forces, while the main body of the army marched North towards Mortara and Vigevano.

[1][4][5] Ultimately the 21st Infantry Regiment was forced to retreat across the Po river, where it joined with the rest of the Lombard units, which played no role in the remaining events of the war.

On 22-23 March 1849, Field Marshal Radetzky decisively defeated the Sardinians in the Battle of Novara, in which two squadrons of the Lombard Dragoons Regiment fought.

In the evening of 23 March, King Charles Albert abdicated in favour of his son Victor Emmanuel.

On 24 March, the new king met with Radetzky at Vignale and agreed to an armistice, which ended the short Second Campaign of the First Italian War of Independence.

On 1 May, the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Saluzzo" clashed with Austrian vanguards at Torre Beretti.

During this time the regiment was based in Campania and clashed with rebels at Rapolla and Venosa in the Vulture region, and then at Gioia del Colle at the southern end of the Murge plateau.

In 1887, the regiment provided personnel and horses for the formation of the Mounted Hunters Squadron, which fought in the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889.

On 27 October, the regiment took up positions in the village of Salt to protect the bride over the Torre river.

The regiment then crossed the Torre and its squadrons charged enemy patrols, which enabled the Italian rearguards to disengage and retreat.

The next day, the regiment covered the Italian retreat over the bridges over the Livenza river at Sacile.

On 9 November, the regiment arrived in Ponte della Priula, where it crossed the Piave river, along which the Royal Italian Army established the new frontline.

However already at Istrago the regiment encountered an Austro-Hungarian rearguard of two infantry companies with six machine guns and two cannons.

On 1 July 1920, the II Squadrons Group "Lancieri di Mantova" of the Regiment "Genova Cavalleria" (4th) in Bologna was disbanded and the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Saluzzo" (12th) moved from Milan to Bologna, where it took over the barracks of the disbanded Squadrons Group.

On 24 May 1925, the standard of the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Foggia" (11th) was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags, which at the time was located in Castel Sant'Angelo, for safekeeping.

In 1935-36, the regiment provided seven officers and 450 enlisted for units deployed to East Africa for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

The announcement of the armistice reached the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Saluzzo" in Novi Vinodolski.

On 11 September, the regiment moved to Rijeka, which it found deserted by Italian higher commands.

[1][5][6] On 15 September 1964, the Italian Army disbanded the Regiment "Lancieri di Aosta" (6th) in Reggio Emilia and the next day the regiment's II Squadrons Group was renamed Squadrons Group "Cavalleggeri di Saluzzo".

On 20 May 1965, the squadrons group was temporarily entrusted with the standard of Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Saluzzo" (12th).

[1][7] On 12 November 1976, the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone assigned with decree 846 the standard and traditions of the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Saluzzo" (12th) to the squadrons group.