Szanyi Miklós, Author at Sapkajelvény történetek

Merry Christmas!

I wish a blessed, merry Christmas to all my dear readers with this beautiful Kutzer postcard and extra badge. The

On a relatively large number of badges we see the most famous decoration of the German Empire, the Iron Cross.

The Austro-Hungarian Navy was the sixth strongest in the world on the eve of the Great War. The development of

From 1915 until the end of the Great War, the War in the Alps received much attention in the contemporary

The regiment was founded in 1688 by Count Ádám Czobor with the permission of Emperor Leopold I. The crew was

Gábor Csiszér’s extremely interesting postcard is the main topic of the post. The card is not a unique piece, it

A multitude of propaganda badges were created in the Monarchy to maintain war enthusiasm. Some of these have been issued

In the Isonzo Valley, an important north-south railway line connecting the coast with Styria and the Laibach Basin was built

The second part of Gábor Széplaki’s post series on the A-H field pilot badges: On November 21, 1916, after nearly

Already the November war diary mentioned, that the Russian army, defeated in May-June 1915, was able to rearrange its ranks