The Austro-Hungarian Second Army was stationed in the mobilization turmoil at the beginning of the war, first on the Serbian front and was hastily returned to Eastern Galicia. Moving an [ … ]
Month: April 2022
5th Honvéd Hussars
The badges of the cavalry regiments were generally more expensive, often enameled pieces. In many cases, there was no cheaper badge, only the enamel, which collectors today generally consider to [ … ]
Archducess Augusta
Bavarian Princess Augusta of Augusta came from the Bavarian Wittelsbach House on the paternal branch and from the Habsburg-Lothringen House on the maternal branch. She was the granddaughter of Emperor [ … ]
German M16 hand grenade
In the attached photo we see assault soldiers with interesting hand grenades. The military industry of the Monarchy was unable to produce adequate quantities of hand grenades, so German types [ … ]
IR 21 in the defence of Hudilog
The southern section of the Italian front stretched across the Karst plateau. The Italians fought their way here for miles and miles in successive Isonzo battles at the cost of [ … ]
Mace
The Great War was quickly transformed from a moving warfare into a trench fight. The large-scale, open-air attacks began with infantry salves, followed by a melee with the arrival of [ … ]
Blessed Easter holidays!
I wish all readers jolly holidays with this nice Kutzer card and the badge “Ostern am Isonzo”. To my knowledge this is the only Easter holiday Kappenabzeichen. There are numerous [ … ]
IR 23
Several badges, many different postcards and letter seals were made for the 23rd Infantry Regiment. The fund for disabled of the regiment did a very diligent job. I have already [ … ]
Polish Legion
At the beginning of the Great War, independent Poland did not exist. The territories inhabited by Poles were owned by the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian states following the earlier partition [ … ]
IR 45
No 45 was a Galician regiment, its military district was Eastern Galicia, so its staff consisted partly of Poles and Ruthens. The headquarters were based in Przemysl, but the cadre [ … ]