40 honvéd howitzer regiment

This card has been hiding among my materials for a long time. The correspondence card is very often seen in the philatelic offer. Since it is constantly in sight, I forgot that it is indeed possible to write a post about this badge. All the more so, since the badge is a very detailed, beautiful work. Of course, it cannot be considered very rare either.

It is worth noting some general information about the regiment that the Hungarian honvéd artillery only began to be established in 1913, first with the cannon regiments. As a result, the Hungarian honvéd artillery did not have any howitzer units or heavy artillery until 1915. The army divisions received “borrowed” howitzer troops from the artillery of the “joint” forces. From these, or from the batteries of the honvéd cannon regiments, the first howitzer divisions were formed after retraining. The number of the guns increased and thus the units reached the size of a regiment, both in terms of equipment and the number of trained artillerymen. But this only happened in 1916. In the artillery regiments of the Hungarian honvéd, the organizational framework of the howitzer units began to be established in September 1915. In March 1916, the 40th Hungarian Army Howitzer Regiment was formed, assigned to the 40th Infantry Division. The artillery brigade of the 40th Division, including the howitzer regiment, operated under the subordination of this division until the end of the war.