The 14th Landwehr was headquartered in Brünn. Brünn was and still is the capital of Moravia, home to many military units and headquarters. Two-thirds of the city’s population was German-speaking, [ … ]
Month: March 2022
5th (38.) Honvéd Cannon Regiment
My friend Gábor Vásárhelyi sent me some of his great-grandfather’s memorabilia to help me find out where he was in duty. Two of the three documents are from 1917, bearing [ … ]
The two rulers
The alliance of the Central Powers could be considered an alliance of the two emperors at the beginning of the Great War. Later, with the joining of Turkey and then [ … ]
Landesverteidigung Tirol
One of the best known badges is the subject of the current post. Its inscription ‘Tirol – Landesverteidigung’ recalls mainly the wording of propaganda badges. In the lower left corner [ … ]