The 21st Infantry Regiment was founded in 1733. It was a Czech regiment, and the crew was taken out of areas east of Prague. The headquarters in Kutna Hora (Kuttenberg) [ … ]
Month: February 2021
MG gunners’ badge
Another high-quality entry by Gábor Széplaki. In the Monarchy machine guns were introduced as direct shooting support of the infantry units after the millennium. Initially in 1908, one machine gun [ … ]
Manilowa
The name Manilowa has become a concept. The 85th Infantry Regiment was called the Manilowa Regiment, and it is mentioned in many recollections, and the regiment’s newspaper had the same [ … ]
Drei Zinnen / Tre Cime di Lavaredo
During the roundtrip, I occasionally show natural beauties on the badges. That’s because we’re running out of city badges. Drei Zinnen is a triple peak in the Sexten-Dolomites, on the [ … ]
Tirol
Italy, a former ally of the Monarchy, entered the Great War in 1915 alongside the entente. The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, Italy) had been abandoned several years earlier. The Italians [ … ]
42nd Infantry Division 2
The 42nd Croatian Honvéd (Domobran) division and its cap badge were discussed in connection with a wearing photo. The opening image shows the badge on a post card with a [ … ]
Archduke Joseph
He came from the Hungarian branch of the Habsburgs. His grandfather was Archduke Joseph, whose name was included in the April 1848 laws for his efforts enhancing prosperity in Hungary. [ … ]
3rd Army assault group
There’s absolutely no need to write a lengthy review here. The badge of the 3rd Army Assault Unit is one of the most beautiful assault badges. Very plastic, detailed. It’s [ … ]
SMS Bodrog
The units of the Danube monitor flotilla were low-build river vessels equipped with cannons in rotating turrets. The first one built was SMS Lajta (1871). The sample was provided by [ … ]
II. Landesschützen Regiment, Bozen
The names of the Tyrolean units have always been a problem for me. They were all called different from ordinary military units in the rest of the Monarchy. It starts [ … ]