Army badges often appear on photos as well as among badges for sale. Perhaps one of the most common belongs to the 3rd Army. However, its frequency does not detract [ … ]
Month: January 2022
baron Samuel Hazai minister of defense
He was born in 1851 in the city of Rimaszombat in a Jewish family (Kohn). He was enlisted in the Hungarian honvéd army in 1873. Here he soon excelled in [ … ]
LIR 13
Postcards often depict the regiment number in ornate form. Often, this depiction is like a plan for a cap badge. I am almost certain of this sometimes, even though no [ … ]
Krn
It’s a strange name made up of all consonants. Of course, this congestion is not uncommon in South Slavic languages, and it is especially common in Slovenian. Trieste is also [ … ]
IR 24
This is now again a classic cap badge card: a silver-embossed image of the original badge adorns the field postcard. It’s like having an original badge on it too, as [ … ]
January, 1916
In the winter of 1914, the Monarchy received a big slap from little Serbia. The hard-to-occupy areas in the fall of 1914 had to be evacuated due to the simultaneous [ … ]
IR 69
Quite a variety of cap badges were made for some regiments. There may have been many reasons for this, but it is quite certain that both the crew and the [ … ]
Durazzo
As the badges depicting the sights in the Monarchy waned, I also took out some works that show the objects of the conquered territories. After Belgrade and Mitrovica, we get [ … ]
Cycling battalions
This was a truly special troop, as among the innovations of the age, in addition to motorization, the muscle driven vehicle, the bicycle, was also there. It’s a little weird [ … ]
BHD
Again, a very common, yet puzzling badge comes up today. Together with the army badges, this Bosnia-Hercegovina-Dalmatia badge is one of the most common pieces. If, on the other hand, [ … ]