Szanyi Miklós, Author at Sapkajelvény történetek

Pola

Pola (today Pula, Croatia) was the monarchy’s most important naval base on the Istrian peninsula. Previously, along with Dalmatia, Istria

The SMS Kaiser Karl VI was built between 1896 and 1898 at the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard in Trieste. The

To enthuse soldiers and the general public badge producers designed funny propaganda badges. The main motif of Arkanzas’ badges is

Svetozar Boroević was born in 1856 in Umetic, Croatia. In 1875, he was appointed lieutenant and was assigned to the

A fairly rare and much sought for badge is the IR 30 badge with the image of the Salcano railway

Görz (Gorizia) formally became one of Austria’s provinces in 1500 as part of Görz and Gradisca county, along with the

There is a very exciting Kappenabzeichen with a skull between flames and SK 3/61 on a red background. I’ve always

One of the Monarchy’s best-known and presumably best weapons was the 30.5 cm mortar. Officially known as Skoda 30.5 cm

The usage of the Kappenabzeichen became more and more popular. This was despite of the regularly announced negative attitude of

The 58th Division was deployed on the Italian front. Its backbone was made up of mountain-trained troops, battalions of the