Poland: 3rd Carpathian Rifles Badge in silver for officers with the inscription ‘Wiara Wytrwalosc-Zwycestwo’ to the reverse and the screw plate marker marked ‘F.M. Lorioli, Milano-Roma’
Poland: Second World War 3rd Carpathian Rifles Badge in silver for officers with the inscription ‘Wiara Wytrwalosc-Zwycestwo’ to the reverse and the screw plate marker marked ‘F.M. Lorioli, Milano-Roma’
Condition: Good Very Fine
Along with matching miniature badge.
The 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division (Polish: 3 Dywizja Strzelców Karpackich, sometimes translated as 3rd Carpathian Infantry Division), also commonly known as Christmas Tree Division due to the characteristic emblem of a cedar of Lebanon superimposed upon the Polish flag, was an infantry division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West that fought during World War II on the Italian Front. It was formed in 1942 of the Polish Independent Carpathian Brigade and of forces of Lieutenant General Władysław Anders' Polish 2nd Corps evacuated from the Soviet Union.
The division participated in the North African and the Italian Campaigns (1941–1945) as part of the British Eighth Army. The division fought in some of the most difficult battles during the Italian campaigns of 1943-1944 and distinguished itself in numerous actions most notably the Battle of Monte Cassino, the dash for Ancona and Bologna.
This Divisional badge is called Znak Pamiatkow and was instituted for soldiers of the 3rd DSK in 1st December 1945 and distributed in 1946 to troops who had fought with the Division.
