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The '''10th Engineer Regiment''' ({{lang-it|10° Reggimento Genio Guastatori}}) is a [[military engineer]] regiment of the [[Italian Army]] based in [[Cremona]] in [[Lombardy]]. Today the regiment is the engineer unit of the [[132nd Armored Brigade "Ariete"]].<ref>{{cite web |title=10° Reggimento Genio Guastatori |url=https://www.esercito.difesa.it/organizzazione/capo-di-sme/Comando-Forze-Operative-Nord/Brigata-Corazzata-Ariete/10-Reggimento-Genio-Guastatori/Pagine/default.aspx |publisher=Italian Army |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref><ref name="10° Genio">{{cite book |last1=F. dell'Uomo, R. Puletti |title=L'Esercito Italiano verso il 2000 - Vol. Primo - Tomo II |date=1998 |publisher=SME - Ufficio Storico |location=Rome |page=285}}</ref>

== History ==

On 13 October 1922 the 8th Army Corps Engineer Grouping was formed in [[Santa Maria Capua Vetere]], which received the Sappers Battalion and the Telegraphers Battalion of the [[X Army Corps (Italy)|X Army Corps]]. The grouping consisted of a command, a sappers-miners battalion, a telegraphers battalion, a photo-electricians company, two dovecotes (in [[Gaeta]] and [[Catanzaro]]), and a [[regimental depot|depot]]. On 5 November 1926 the grouping was renamed 10th Engineer Regiment.<ref name="10° Genio">{{cite book |last1=F. dell'Uomo, R. Puletti |title=L'Esercito Italiano verso il 2000 - Vol. Primo - Tomo II |date=1998 |publisher=SME - Ufficio Storico |location=Rome |page=285}}</ref> In February 1928 the regiment provided troops for the formation of the [[11th Engineer Regiment (Italy)|11th Engineer Regiment]]. On 28 October 1932 the regiment received a radio-telegraphers battalion from the disbanded [[1st Radio-Telegraphers Regiment]].<ref name="10° Genio"/><ref name="La Storia"/>

For the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War]] the regiment mobilized on 23 September 1935 the X Replacements Engineer Battalion, which supplied 1,300 men to the [[8th Engineer Regiment (Italy)|8th Engineer Regiment]] fighting in [[Ethiopia]]. The X Replacements Engineer Battalion was disbanded on 15 January 1936. The regiment also formed the XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, and XXXIV sappers-engineer battalions in 1935 for the war, and the XXXIII and XXXVIII engineer battalions in 1936. The regiment also formed in 1936 the XX and XXXI marching engineer battalions for deployment to Ethiopia, which provided additional replacement troops to the already deployed battalions.<ref name="10° Genio"/><ref name="La Storia"/>