This division included the 6th, 19th, 29th and 30th honvéd infantry regiments, which received crews from the central areas of the Kingdom of Hungary, mainly from the Danube-Tisza area. They [ … ]
Colonel general Felix von Bothmer
Military cooperation between the Monarchy and the German Empire became as close as possible as early as 1915. The troops of the two countries fought shoulder to shoulder to defend [ … ]
Mt San Gabriele
In September 1917, the 20th Army Division was commanded from the more peaceful front of Volhinia again to the Italian front, even to the most difficult positions there. This job [ … ]
IR 44
The 44th Infantry Regiment was a regiment of Somogy County, its replacement battalion was stationed in Kaposvár. The regiment was located at the beginning of the Great War in Vienna. [ … ]
Mitrovica
In this series, I have presented badges depicting the settlements and sights within the administrative territory of the Monarchy. In order to keep the section running, we also need to [ … ]
Zita hussars
In 1917, the owner of the 16th Üxküll-Gyllenband Hussar Regiment became Empress Zita. On the occasion of this event, a badge was made in which the initial letter of the [ … ]
September 1915
The offensive of the Central Powers, launched in May 1915, was exhausted by August. The Russian armies deployed in Russian-Poland were eventually not embraced and captured by German and Austro-Hungarian [ … ]
Feathered hat of generals
The two emperors Karl and Fanz Joseph can be seen on some cap badges in interesting hats with ancient feather decoration. If we visit Vienna, in the places preserving the [ … ]
Colonel Fischer’s combat group
Eduard Fischer was a descendant of a landowner family in Bukovina, born in 1862. After military training, from 1891 he continued his career in the gendarmerie. He became the gendarmerie [ … ]
Hussar shakos
The company ARKANZAS produced some badges to order, but in most cases only by intuition. They sensed how eager civilians and soldiers were to look for the badges, so they [ … ]