I would say very rare unobtainable Italian jacket of the great war, it is a mod 909 in cloth troops belonged to a non-commissioned officer of the RGT consists GENIUS MINATORI.Fino to May of 1915, before the general mobilization, the weapon of Engineers, headed by an Inspector General , was divided into two departments: engineering and construction genius of the troops. The service building was disengaged from 5 commands of genius, 12-way, 11 subdirectorates, 8 offices for the fortifications, 2 large workshops construction. At the service of the troops were in charge two commands weapon which framed the various regiments of the genius:
1st Engineers Regiment diggers based in Pavia
2nd Engineers Regiment diggers based in Casale Monferrato
3rd telegrafisiti Engineers Regiment based in Florence
4th Engineers Regiment sappers and lagoon based in Piacenza
5th Engineers Regiment miners based in Turin
6th Engineers Regiment railroad based in Turin, in May 1915, 20 companies were mobilized miners. The number soon proved insufficient for the extensive development taken from the work of mine on the mountain front, so that companies miners were flanked companies of sappers, crews militarized workers and bourgeois. In 1918 they were operating nine battalions miners with 30 companies, as well as 23 independent companies in the employ of the great commands. - The jacket looks very complete and all