I cheated a bit on this post. The post card belongs to the 13th Landwehr Field Howitzer Regiment and the badge belongs to the 13th Landwehr Field Cannon Regiment. Both [ … ]
Tsar Ferdinand 1
In the Balkan wars, ever increasing areas of the declining Turkish Empire became independent in the second half of the 1800s. Bulgaria was like that too. In the new states, [ … ]
M 99 15 cm heavy howitzer
It was the main gun type of the Monarchy’s heavy artillery at the beginning of the Great War. The first version was commissioned in 1894. It was a recoilless gun [ … ]
DR 15
One of the cap badges of the 15th dragoon regiment is worn on the picture on the left side of the cap as usual. The fashion for cap badges did [ … ]
3. Schützen regiment (2)
A few weeks ago, I uploaded one of the postcards of the 3rd rifle regiment, part of a series. In this post, I present another very nice postcard from that [ … ]
FLIK 22
The various air force units underwent rapid development during the Great War. The backbone of the branch was the two-seater reconnaissance aircraft. From 1917, fighter planes grew in number and [ … ]
Italian mock badge
A series of badges from the Arkansas company included humorous badges. On these badges the Austro-Hungarian bucks used to teach the enemy’s soldiers a lesson. Besides the Serbian, Russian and [ … ]
Defence of Podgora and Oslavija in the winter of 1915
In the winter of 1915-16, the mountains on the west bank of the Isonzo (Podgora and Mt Sabotino) were still retained by the Monarchy. In the middle of the flatter [ … ]
November 1916
The Act of 5th November was a declaration of the German and Austrian emperors to create the Kingdom of Poland. Poles regard this date as the day of rebirth of [ … ]
3rd Schützen Regiment
Regiments’ Invalid Funds raised money for charity in a variety of ways. One such opportunity was the production and sale of postcards for sale to the crew. In many cases, [ … ]