The 44th Infantry Regiment was a regiment of Somogy County, its replacement battalion was stationed in Kaposvár. The regiment was located at the beginning of the Great War in Vienna. [ … ]

The company ARKANZAS produced some badges to order, but in most cases only by intuition. They sensed how eager civilians and soldiers were to look for the badges, so they [ … ]

By 1915, after the first8-9 months of the Great War, the troops of the Monarchy suffered extremely heavy losses. This was true for all types of regiments. Attempts were made [ … ]

The main curiosity of this post, of course, is not so much the badge of the 1st Army, which was one of the first cap badges by the way. Rather, [ … ]

The Honvéd and Landwehr regiments were considered rather second-line units before the Great War. This was also evident in the fact that when the line-up was sorted, the joint k.u.k. [ … ]

One of my favorite badges. I think it’s a very beautiful composition, after all, I love Art Nouveau! The head in the assault helmet in the middle of the badge [ … ]

Archduke Charles-Louis was the first prince of the Teschen branch of the Habsburg family. He was born in Florence in 1771 and died in Vienna in 1847. He was a [ … ]

In the Austrian provinces, the equivalent of the Hungarian Royal Honvéd forces was the Austrian Landwehr, whose regiments were later renamed Schützen Regiment. The battle value of these regiments was [ … ]

The 10th Hussar Regiment received its crew from the central regions of Hungary. His headquarters were in Budapest. Perhaps this central location is the reason why the regiment has received [ … ]

The 69th Infantry Regiment issued field postcards decorated with particularly many motifs. Some of these show a portrait of the regiment’s owner Paul von Hindenburg, as I presented earlier in [ … ]