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, [ … ]
Enver Pasha
Ismail Enver, a much-debated figure in Turkish history, was deputy commander-in-chief of the Turkish army involved in the fighting during the Great War. He was born in 1881 in Istanbul. [ … ]
ITD 32
This post fits in the line where I present images that represent unrealized, designed badges. Most recently, we saw a drawing of the beautiful enamel badge of the 1st Infantry [ … ]
FJB 10
I stood puzzled with the little numbered horns of the Austro-Hungarian Jägers for a while. These are very common among the badges of hunter battalions. It should be noted that [ … ]
HIR 32
The photo on which the post is based has already been featured before, as we can discover several cap badges on the caps. On each of them we can see [ … ]
