WWII -1940 1941 - North African Campaign- Colonial troop in Libya, september 1940. The Royal Corps of Colonial Troops (Italian: Regio Corpo Truppe Coloniali) was a corps of the Italian armed forces, in which all the Italian colonial troops were grouped until the end of World War II in Africa. Libyan troops, which included the Libyan Meharisti , the Savari and the Spahis.