To enthuse soldiers and the general public badge producers designed funny propaganda badges. The main motif of Arkanzas’ badges is the Hungarian private who teaches the enemy soldier a lesson [ … ]
Month: September 2020
Field marshal Svetozar Boroevic
Svetozar Boroević was born in 1856 in Umetic, Croatia. In 1875, he was appointed lieutenant and was assigned to the Croatian home defence (domobran) armed forces. At that time the [ … ]
IR 30
A fairly rare and much sought for badge is the IR 30 badge with the image of the Salcano railway bridge. The defense lines of the Monarchy on the Italian [ … ]
Görz
Görz (Gorizia) formally became one of Austria’s provinces in 1500 as part of Görz and Gradisca county, along with the southern part of today’s Slovenia. In the following centuries, the [ … ]
Flamethrower
There is a very exciting Kappenabzeichen with a skull between flames and SK 3/61 on a red background. I’ve always been searching for the meaning of this badge very much, [ … ]
30.5 cm Motor Mörser
One of the Monarchy’s best-known and presumably best weapons was the 30.5 cm mortar. Officially known as Skoda 30.5 cm Mörser M.11. The gun was developed specifically for offensive purposes [ … ]
3. Tiroler Kaiserjäger Regiment
The usage of the Kappenabzeichen became more and more popular. This was despite of the regularly announced negative attitude of the KuK highest command against it. But since the officers [ … ]
Sturmbaon 58
The 58th Division was deployed on the Italian front. Its backbone was made up of mountain-trained troops, battalions of the 4th and 5th Mountain Brigades. In 1917, the 96th Infantry [ … ]
September 1914
September 1914 did not bring luck to The Austro-Hungarian troops. Offensive operations against Serbia slowed after Russia’s war entry forced most of the troops to be directed to the northern [ … ]
Székelyudvarhely
Székelyudvarhely is one of the bigger towns of the Székely, a group of Hungarians who received special privileges in medieval times for military services at the Eastern borders of the [ … ]