Eduard Fischer was a descendant of a landowner family in Bukovina, born in 1862. After military training, from 1891 he continued his career in the gendarmerie. He became the gendarmerie [ … ]
Month: August 2021
Hussar shakos
The company ARKANZAS produced some badges to order, but in most cases only by intuition. They sensed how eager civilians and soldiers were to look for the badges, so they [ … ]
38 cm M 16 heavy howitzer BHL/17 project
The design of the giant howitzer was started by Skoda Works in 1915. In 1914, to defeat the Belgian forts, the Monarchy sent 30.5 cm mortars to the Western Front. [ … ]
Arthur von Bolfras colonel general
He was born in 1838 in Sachsenhausen, Germany. His family was of German descent on the Rhine, but his father had already become a colonel in the army of the [ … ]
Dniester front and the XI. corps
Following the Gorlice breakthrough, the Allies sought primarily to repress the northern and central parts of the Russian front. In the south, near the Romanian border, the Russians were also [ … ]
First birthday of the site!
I started the presentation of the Austro-Hungarian cap badges and the stories about them a year ago. According to the counter, this is the 440th post. Of course, most posts [ … ]
The Danube Flotilla and SMS Temes at the Serbian border
The Monarchy built a fleet of monitor-type ships in the years before the Great War. One of these ships was SMS Temes, built in 1904. Its two turrets were located [ … ]
Imre Hadfy von Livno, GdI
He was born in 1853 in Nagykároly. In 1875 he entered active military duty as a lieutenant. He took part in the occupation of Bosnia, where he distinguished himself by [ … ]
55th reserve howitzer regiment
The artillery of the Monarchy underwent the greatest development during the Great War. The number of batteries and regiments set up expanded rapidly and the existing ones were often reorganized. [ … ]
29th reserve IR II. battalion
This badge was placed in the special units category due to several oddities. The 29th Infantry Regiment was organized in Torontal County and had its headquarters in Nagybecskerek. One third [ … ]