In this month, the most significant events took place in the territory of the disintegrating Russian Empire. The peace negotiations with the Central Powers that began the previous month continued. [ … ]
Month: January 2024
FJB 31
It was a Croatian battalion from Zagreb. It was deployed in two brigades of the 25th division (49th and 50th) until 1917. The division fought in the 2nd Army in [ … ]
Sveta Maria
It’s been a long time dream of mine to get this fantastically beautiful blue shade enamel badge. When I succeeded, as usual, I wanted to know what was shown on [ … ]
Major Gyula Hummel
Major Gyula Hummel is mentioned in the staff of the 2nd honvéd infantry regiment in the schematics of 1917 and 1918. Major from November 1, 1915. But how did he [ … ]
Polish Legion (3)
Polish troops with native command language were already established in 1914 in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. All of this took place immediately after the politicians and leaders, who identified Polish self-administration [ … ]
Train troop
The train troop was a branch that dealt with the material supply of the combatant formations. All means of transport and horse stock made available to the army, as well [ … ]
Submarine (2)
I have written about submarines several times (here and here). It doesn’t take much imagination to feel how terrifying, dangerous and challenging it was to serve on a submarine. The [ … ]
IR 95 (2)
The 95th was a Galician regiment. Its command was located in Lemberg, and received staff from the Czortków area. It was a regiment of the 11th Corps. According to the [ … ]
Durchhalten!
In English, “Resistance!” was the call in the winter of 1914/15, when the Russian offensive in the Carpathians was halted with great difficulty. This military success meant a loss of [ … ]
21 Corps
The corps was created for the Monarchy’s great Tyrolean offensive of 1916 from the 44th Rifle Division and the Kaiserschützen Division. In the fall of 1916, it was commanded to [ … ]