During World War I the regiment distinguished itself in the pursuit of the beaten Austro-Hungarian Army after the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.

During World War II the regiment was assigned together with the Regiment "Lancieri di Novara" to the 3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta", which participated in spring 1941 in the Invasion of Yugoslavia and in summer 1941 in the Invasion of the Soviet Union.

[1][4][5][6] In December 1942 the regiment was nearly annihilated during the Soviet Operation Little Saturn and subsequently the survivors were repatriated to Italy.

[4][5] In 1690 the Duke of Savoy Victor Amadeus II joined the Nine Years' War against the Kingdom of France.On 23 July 1692 the Cavalry Regiment "Savoia" (Italian: Reggimento di Cavalleria "Savoia") and the Cavalry Regiment "Piemonte Reale" were formed for service in the war.

In March 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Italy and took command of the French forces, with which he defeated the Royal Sardinian Army in the Montenotte campaign within a month.

On 28 April 1796, King Victor Amadeus III had to sign the Armistice of Cherasco and on 15 May 1796 the Treaty of Paris, which forced Sardinia out of the First Coalition.

On 16 October 1796 Victor Amadeus III died and his eldest son Charles Emmanuel IV ascended the throne.

[5][8] In fall 1798, during the War of the Second Coalition, France invaded the remaining territories of King Charles Emmanuel IV.

On 9 December 1798 the Sardinian troops were released from their oath of allegiance to the King and sworn to the Piedmontese Republic.

At Sommacampagna the Savoia captured the flag of the Austrian 48th Infantry Regiment of Archduke Ernest of Austria.

In 1895-96 the regiment provided one officer and 68 enlisted for units deployed to Italian Eritrea for the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

On 1 October 1909 the Savoia ceded one of its squadrons to help form new Regiment "Lancieri di Mantova" (25th).

In 1917 the regimental depot in Milan formed the 1497th Dismounted Machine Gunners Company as reinforcement for infantry units on the front.

[4][1][5] After the war the Italian Army disbanded 14 of its 30 cavalry regiments and so on 21 November 1919 the II Group of the Savoia was renamed "Lancieri di Vercelli" as it consisted of personnel and horses from the disbanded Regiment "Lancieri di Vercelli" (26th).

[4][5] In 1935-36 the regiment contributed eleven officers and 535 enlisted men for units, which were deployed to East Africa for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

[6] On 20 July 1941 the division left Italy and on 13 August 1941 it reached Dniprodzerzhynsk (today Kamianske) on the Dnipro river in central Ukraine.

[7] On 15 March 1942 division's two cavalry regiments and the 3rd Horse Artillery Regiment, as well as the III Fast Tanks Group "San Giorgio" left the division and formed the Horse Troops Grouping under direct command of the 8th Italian Army.

For the defence of Yagodnyi and the charge at Izbushensky the Savoia was awarded with a Gold Medal of Military Valor.

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

[4][5] During the regiment's deployment to russia the regiment's depot in Milan formed the:[5] After the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile the commander of the Savoia's regimental depot in Somma Lombardo, Colonel Pietro de Vito Piscicelli was left without orders and on his own initiative contacted the Swiss authorities: at 7:30 pm on 12 September 1943 Colonel de Vito Piscicelli reached the Swiss border above Ligornetto in the Canton of Ticino at the head of a column consisting of 15 officers, 642 troops, 316 horses and nine mules, with weapons, ammunition and food.

Colonel de Vito Piscicelli had the complete regimental depot cross the Swiss border to be interned in Switzerland.

The men were sent to the Canton of Bern and officers and troops of the regimental depot remained in Switzerland until the end of the war.

[7] On 15 October 1946 the Divisional Reconnaissance Group "3° Cavalieri" was formed in Milan and assigned to the Infantry Division "Legnano".

On 11 October 1975 the Regiment "Savoia Cavalleria" (3rd) and its II and III squadrons groups in Meran were disbanded.

Since 2013 members of the Savoia can obtain the military parachuting license and the regiment's 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron "De Leone" is fully airborne qualified.