The 69th Infantry Regiment issued field postcards decorated with particularly many motifs. Some of these show a portrait of the regiment’s owner Paul von Hindenburg, as I presented earlier in [ … ]
Month: June 2021
Notification from the office of the 26th IR
The subject of this post is an interesting and rare postcard. The anxious relative is notified by the regiment’s records office that the name of the soldier in question is [ … ]
The iron turul of Nyitra
Memorial statues were inaugurated throughout the Monarchy to commemorate the war and to support the families of those killed in the fighting. According to the concept, iron nails or metal [ … ]
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
Born in 1856, a military officer of Sudeten German descent, Imperial and Royal Lieutenant General, Commander of the 2nd Army. His father, Sergeant Georg Böhm, was given the rank of [ … ]
Searchlight units’ craft badge
In the excellent post of Miklós Szanyi (here) we could read about the formation of the spotlight branch, and here we are talking about the branch craft badge of the [ … ]
31st Field Artillery Regiment
The artillery units underwent a large-scale development during the Great War. As a result of quantitative development, the number of batteries, artillery divisions, and regiments swelled. In addition, the previously [ … ]
Gurschner
The Kappenabzeichen of the Great War were made by at least two dozen manufacturers. The largest of these were the Austrian companies Brüder Schneider, Gurschner and the Budapest company Arkanzas. [ … ]
Col di Lana: the mountain of blood and iron 1.
This post has been written by a good friend Mátyás Boda, thank you Mátyás! After long hesitation the Italians finally withdrew from the Triple Alliance in the spring of 1915, [ … ]
Against Romania
Romania was a small Balkan country that was only in its fourth decade of independence during the Great War. Taking advantage of the loss of European space of the Turkish [ … ]
24th honvéd ID photo
ID photo of a soldier from the 24th Honvéd infantry regiment, with the well-known and popular Kappenabzeichen of the regiment worn in the middle of the field cap. The badge [ … ]