What Italian regiment?

[jess5athome]

What do we think, I think it's the number "2"

Frank.

[..claire..]

I think it's highly probable it's a number ' cavalry number' maybe, after reading this page

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Military-History-669/2011/2/Uniform-Identification-5.htm

[Cas (stallc)]

Would number 2 be on a non English reg hat thou ?

But know nothing about Italian or French number systems except basic French

Cas

[..claire..]

What would an Italian number 2 look like 

74 is on the hat in the link I gave ~ so possible

[jess5athome]

What would an Italian number 2 look like 

This answers that one 

An Italian 2nd Artillery Cavalry Cap Badge,

http://www.emedals.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/327x245/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/n/an_italian_2nd_a_5522ee1aea763.jpg


Frank.

[..claire..]

Doh! 

[John915]

Good evening,

Probably a NCO and not an officer as he is posing with a rifle. Going by the British Army he looks like an Italian Lance-Corporal. But that is a wild guess. Scroll down to very last image and that might give rank and choices of army units. On the bottom line (right of the trumpeter) there is an X image  badge similar to the X image which is near the plume of the hat on your photograph.


http://www.uniformology.com/RUHL-08.html

Strangest rifle iv'e ever seen, actually it's a cavalry sabre. I think heavy cavalry but don't know a lot about the Italian cavalry.

The no "2" is not part of his badge, that is the large item lower down on the front of the busby. It may just be a reflection or some sort of device on the bit that holds the plume on.

John915

[Cas (stallc)]

TBH I also thought sword not rifle, but out of depth here, no knowledge

Cas

[..claire..]

Yeah.. I'd go with sword. But I still think it looks like a '2', but wading far out of my depth here