Papp Brigade (2)

In the rapidly changing front situation during the years of the Great War, it happened several times that higher units, mostly brigades, or less often divisions, were organized from various troops at hand on the front line. Such was the recently presented Békési Brigade and such was the Papp Brigade.

I have written about Colonel Dániel Papp of the Engineering Corps here before. He began organizing his troop of volunteers in Bukovina at the turn of 1914/15. This group rose to brigade level in 1917. At that time, the 5th Insurgent Infantry Regiment, the Russ Group and several other insurgent supply battalions were part of its staff. I have also written about its history here. The unit’s badge appears in a new wearing photo found on Fortepan. The interesting thing about the picture is that on one of the field caps we can also see the badge of the Russ battalion. The opening page shows the silver version of the badge. The war metal design is in the middle of the text.