The crew of this regiment consisted of chaps from the Danube-Tisza area Central Hungary. The cadre was in Szabadka, but the battalions were stationed in Kecskemét and Cegléd. According to [ … ]
Month: October 2021
Romanian front
After a long hesitation, Romania, seeing the success of the Brusilow offensive, finally decided to enter the Great War on the side of the Entente. There was no shortage of [ … ]
1st Corps
This is not a standard post because it is about a barely existing badge. In our wear photo, an unknown colonel put four cap badges on his officer’s hat. The [ … ]
IR 6
A year ago, I presented two beautiful badges of the 6th Infantry Regiment and a field card decorated with the image of the badge. I am now supplementing this post [ … ]
Pilots’ qualification badge mark 1913
A post written by Gábor Széplaki Rapid and comprehensive technical advances in the late 1800s also accelerated efforts to conquer the air. Although balloons were already of great importance in [ … ]
Disinfection cart
This device is not, of course, a weapon, but an equipment. However, it was as significant as the weapons presented so far in this section. One of the important tasks [ … ]
IR 34 “Vilmos-bucks”
The crew of some infantry regiments were informally named after the regiment owner’s first name. Thus the name of the 34th Infantry Regiment was called “Vilmos Bucks”. I then after [ … ]
IR 19
IR 19 was the house regiment of the city of Győr and received crew from the counties of Győr and Veszprém. The regiment was subordinated to the 65th Infantry Brigade [ … ]
Kremsier – Kromeriz and the Landsturm IR No 25
Kremsier (Kromeriz) was the seat of the Olmütz archbishop in central Moravia, in the Hana region. It is located on the banks of the Morava River. Today the town has [ … ]
Sappers
The sapper troop of the Monarchy was created by the reorganization of the technical troops in 1912. Previously, pioneer battalions performed all technical tasks for the ground forces. The task [ … ]