Among the special units various Kappenabzeichen of military hospitals will be uploaded. Other sanitary badges depicted special jobs of medical care. But there were also the well known red cross [ … ]
Month: August 2020
Defence of the Lower Danube region by the Szívó-Group
In the surprise attack of the Romanians, troops in the Lower-Danube area were hurriedly raised against the Romanian Cserna group, which was threatening Banat region. These troops were essentially armed [ … ]
August 1914
General Balázs Dáni, commander of the 62nd Infantry Brigade, was ordered on August 11 th to cross the Sawa river with the 44th Infantry Regiment at Klenak at dawn the [ … ]
Kaiserjäger
For some reason Tyrolean army units had very special status in the Austrian military order. This region also had front line regiments, home guard regiments and auxillary units as well. [ … ]
IR 32 on the field cap
The house-rgiment of Budapest IR 32 had several badges. The better known one shows the portrait of Empress Maria Theresia the permanent regiment owner. A less frequently seen badge is [ … ]
Salzburg
In its long history, the provincial seat has been primarily important as the center of the archbishop’s administration, but it is also an old commercial center. Today it is a [ … ]
Pozsony/Pressburg
During the decades of the Turkish occupation of Buda, the ancient capital city of Hungary, Pozsony (Pressburg) was the capital, and the crowning city of the Kingdom of Hungary (between [ … ]
Infantry Battalion VI/48
Almost all k.u.k. regiments sent one battalion for mountain training. It is rather obvious that warfare in the mountains requires substantially different skills, in many times also different equipment is [ … ]
Vienna 3.
The third Viennese badge also depicts a detail of the Prater. This is the souvenir badge of the 1917 War Exhibition, which features the Ferris wheel (Riesenrad) of the Prater [ … ]
Vienna 2.
The Rotunda was an exhibition hall built in the popular park, the Prater, for the occasion of the 1873 World Fair held in Vienna. On the contemporary engraving, according to [ … ]