Szanyi Miklós, Author at Sapkajelvény történetek

Kaiserjäger

For some reason Tyrolean army units had very special status in the Austrian military order. This region also had front

The house-rgiment of Budapest IR 32 had several badges. The better known one shows the portrait of Empress Maria Theresia

In its long history, the provincial seat has been primarily important as the center of the archbishop’s administration, but it

During the decades of the Turkish occupation of Buda, the ancient capital city of Hungary, Pozsony (Pressburg) was the capital,

Almost all k.u.k. regiments sent one battalion for mountain training. It is rather obvious that warfare in the mountains requires

The third Viennese badge also depicts a detail of the Prater. This is the souvenir badge of the 1917 War

The Rotunda was an exhibition hall built in the popular park, the Prater, for the occasion of the 1873 World

It’s due to start the series of posts of the roundtrip with the capital city, Wien. Vienna was the largest

Technical troops underwent significant development during the war. Since previous wars differed substantially, new types of tasks and jobs emerged.

Among the special units I refer to specialists who were applied on the field to solve special problems. Such a