At the time of the battalion's founding the three companies were fighting in the Greco-Italian War and the headquarters quickly travelled to Albania to take command of its units. After the German invasion of Greece and the Greek surrender the battalion returned to Italy and was garrisoned in Ronchi dei Legionari. During this time the 6th company was transferred to the 80th Airlanding Division "La Spezia" and the 5th company changed its number to 6th. On 17 March 1942 the battalion was assigned to support the Alpini of the Alpine Army Corps of the 8th Italian Army, which was sent to the Eastern Front. The battalion left Italy on 21 July 1942 and arrived in Voroshilovgrad in early September 1942 and entered soon after the front at the Don. The battalion retreated with the Alpine Corps after the second stage of the Soviet Operation Little Saturn had broken the front on both flanks of the Italian 8th Army. The retreat through the frozen steppe and constant skirmishes with Soviet forces decimated the XXX battalion, which barely escaped annihilation during the Battle of Nikolayevka. Of the 23 officers, 30 non-commissioned officers and 427 soldiers present on 1 January 1943 only 121 survived the retreat from the Don and the Battle of Nikolayevka. The battalion was disbanded in late January for the losses it had suffered and in 1988 the XXX Sappers Battalion was awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valour for its conduct in Ukraine and Russia. During the 1975 army reform the Italian Army reorganized the XXXI Sappers Fortification Battalion into the 3rd Engineer Battalion "Verbano" with the 30th, 31st, and 32nd companies, each of which carried on the traditions of one of the three World War II-era battalions. On 1 September 2002 the 32nd Engineer Battalion was reformed in Turin by reorganized the 2nd Railway Engineer Battalion of the Railway Engineer Regiment. The battalion was merged on the same date with the Engineer Company of the Alpine Brigade "Taurinense" and entered the brigade as its engineer unit. On 29 September 2004 the battalion was renamed XXX Sappers Battalion and entered in the newly formed 32nd Engineer Regiment, thus unifying and continuing the traditions of two of the World War II battalions in one unit. On 15 December 2016 the regiment moved from Turin to Fossano. As of 2019 the 32nd Engineer Regiment consists of:   The Command and Logistic Support Company fields the following platoons: C3 Platoon, Transport and Materiel Platoon, Medical Platoon, Commissariat Platoon, and EOD Platoon.