Reggimento Guardia alla Cittą di Venezia
City of Venice Guard Regiment
History
This unit was first formed on 27th January 1808 as a single battalion, the Guardia Sedentaria di Venezia, in response to a command from Napoleon not to station Frenchmen in the malarial swamps around Venice, but locally recruited and acclimatised Italians. A second battalion was announced on 9th November 1810 raising the unit to regimental status. The regiment acted as a garrison for the city whose name it bore. They fought with honour against the Anglo-Austrian forces during the marine blockade of 1813/14.
Organisation
Each battalion followed the standard infantry organisation, with four compnies of fucilieri, one of granatieri and one of volteggiatori. A regimental artillery company was added in 1811.
Uniform
The regiment wore the following uniform:
- Headgear
- All companies wore a French style shako with a white metal chinscales and plate, which was embossed with a "GV" cipher. The shako bore a green, red and white cockade and a pom-pom that was green over white for cacciatori, green or yellow for volteggiatori and red for granatieri. For undress wear, a green bonnet-de-police fatigue cap was worn, piped in red.
- Coat
- The coat was a dark green habit-coat of the line infantry pattern. The collar and cuffs and turnbacks were red, as was the piping on the square lapels and cuff flaps, shoulder straps and pocket.
- Breeches
- Breeches and waistcoat were white worn with black gaiters with white metal buttons.
Sources
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I am also indebted to Marcello Marconi of Verona for information he provided about this unit.