The cadre of the K.u.K 6. Infantry Regiment was located in Újvidék (today Novi Sad in Serbia). Its recruiting area was South Bácska county. The command was located in Budapest. [ … ]
Month: November 2020
Gallipoli
In November 1914, Turkey went to war with the central powers. This event threatened British supply lines through the Suez Canal. At Winston Churchill’s suggestion, the British landed on the [ … ]
Mollináry May feast of IR 38
After the location of the supplement battalion the 38th Infantry Regiment was a regiment of Kecskemét. The crew came from Central Hungary, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskún county. One of the Kappenabzeichen, the Mollináry-May [ … ]
5 variants of German 11th Army badges
As a greenhorn badge collector, I was embarrassed for a while as to why the 11th Army had two very different styles of badges. Then I realized there were two [ … ]
Archduke Eugen
He was born in the Teschen branch of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen. Like most Habsburg boys, he was sent to military schools. He graduated as lieutenant in 1881. Soon in [ … ]
Cool times in the trenches of IR 19
I had a picture of the jolly dining machine gunner. I didn’t think it was a randomly shot trench scene. The good quality of the picture, the professional setting, was [ … ]
Red Devil 2
The name “Red Devil” remained as the common name of the Hussar regiments throughout the Great War. It was so widespread that other cavalry regiments and divisions, were sometimes using [ … ]
November, 1914
In the year 1914, the front in Galicia was still on the move. The Austro-Hungarian and Russian offensives have switched. The aim of all of them was to achieve large [ … ]
Nyitra (Nitra)
The city of Nyitra is an ancient settlement, first officially mentioned in 880. But it was already known in Roman times. It may have been a commercial center at the [ … ]