Szanyi Miklós, Author at Sapkajelvény történetek

First birthday of the site!

I started the presentation of the Austro-Hungarian cap badges and the stories about them a year ago. According to the

The Monarchy built a fleet of monitor-type ships in the years before the Great War. One of these ships was

He was born in 1853 in Nagykároly. In 1875 he entered active military duty as a lieutenant. He took part

The artillery of the Monarchy underwent the greatest development during the Great War. The number of batteries and regiments set

This badge was placed in the special units category due to several oddities. The 29th Infantry Regiment was organized in

By 1915, after the first8-9 months of the Great War, the troops of the Monarchy suffered extremely heavy losses. This

The main curiosity of this post, of course, is not so much the badge of the 1st Army, which was

The Honvéd and Landwehr regiments were considered rather second-line units before the Great War. This was also evident in the

In the Great War, armored trains were used primarily on the eastern battlefield. The first assemblies were built by the

It is not necessary to explain at length that the movement of armies of many hundreds of thousands is a