Another excellent post by Gábor Széplaki: The rapid, accurate, and secure transmission of information has been an important task to be solved both in the past and in the present [ … ]
Month: January 2021
Against Serbia
This badge is extremely brutal. Similar badges showing the buck teaching Russian and Italian soldiers are different. There’s no such physical brutality in those. Those are more humorous scenes. This [ … ]
Assault troops
Books on the subject have been published, so it is difficult to write briefly about this topic. The Russians started it. They used the experience of the 1905 war to [ … ]
Doctor among family members
Doctor among the family members. Military health is an important and special area of the respective armed forces. Military doctors in peacetime played a major role in the assessment of [ … ]
10,4 cm M 14 light howitzer
When the word Austro-Hungarian Artillery is mentioned, most people think first on the huge 30,5 cm Skoda mortar, a feared weapon, and tend to forget about the standard pieces that [ … ]
baron Hermann Kövess von Kövesháza
Born in Temesvár in 1854, his family was of Transylvanian Saxon descent. He was trained as a military engineer at the Military Technical Academy in Vienna. From 1872 he was [ … ]
IR 63
The 63rd Infantry Regiment had its recruiting area in north-eastern Transylvania, primarily in the county of Beszterce-Naszód. The crew reflected the population distribution of the area and consisted up to [ … ]
20. Honvéd infantry regiment
Among the various relics of the regiments, objects that are sometimes difficult to interpret appear. For example, field post cards for the regiments sometimes have decorations that we find difficult [ … ]
January, 1915
By the end of 1914, the Austro-Hungarian empire’s troops were in a critical situation on the northeastern front. Attacks and counter-attacks in the course of the winter caused huge losses, [ … ]
River crossing at Belgrade
The technical corps receive very little attention in the literature of the Great War. Most of the attention is paid to the trenches, which often show the horrors of war, [ … ]