Szanyi Miklós, Author at Sapkajelvény történetek

Alexander von Krobatin

Alexander von Krobatin (1849-1933) was an Austrian artillery officer, and from 1912 to 1917 he was Minister of War of

In this post we will be talking about cap badges, but not the artistic metal badges first associated by everyone,

Burg Hochosterwitz has been owned by the Khevenhüller family since 1541. It is located near Launsdorf in Carinthia. It was

The crew of the 3rd Hussar Regiment came from the eastern part of the Hungarian Great Plain, from the area

In the series of mock badges, this current piece again shows the Austrian private teaching the enemy. The subject suffering

This was the house regiment of the city of Esztergom. Its crew was recruited from the population of Esztergom, Bars

Böhler-Kapfenberg heavy mortar is a simple, heavy-duty muzzle-loaded gun with a fixed base plate without a recoil system. It was

My great-grandfather served in the 11th insurgent regiment that gave the castle guard of the Przemysl Fortress. His position was

The place Doberdó in the Hungarian common language denoted the Karst Plateau on the Italian front. This plateau stretches south

He was born in 1854 in Udine, where his father served as a military officer. From 1869 he attended a