The 39th Infantry Regiment was the house regiment of the city of Debrecen. Being a Debreciner, the history of the regiment has always interested me. Though, I no longer experienced [ … ]

I have already touched the life of Colonel-General Arz von Straussenburg earlier here. Shortly after the beginning of the Great War, he was assigned a corps commander. After the tumultuous [ … ]

The 87th Infantry Regiment received its crew from the territory of present-day Slovenia. Its cadre was stationed in Cilli (now Celje), with command and battalions in Pola. The regiment provided [ … ]

It was a regiment with Hungarian crews from Komárom and Nyitra counties. One of the regiments of the 33rd Division (West Hungary). Between 1914 and 1917 they fought along the [ … ]

The beautiful insignia of the 25th Infantry Division is the subject of the present post. This division mainly brought together infantry regiments operating in the Austrian provinces. Its  headquarters was [ … ]

The army badges were made in the largest number of pieces, in a completely understandable way. The badge of the Isonzo army stands out in several respects. Not because of [ … ]

This regiment recruited mainly Slovaks and Ruthens from the north-eastern part of Hungary, and a smaller number of Hungarian soldiers. The headquarters and cadre was located in Ungvár. The regiment [ … ]

Looking back, cavalry in the conditions of the Great War seems incredibly outdated. In times of devastating artillery attacks, trench infantry, how can cavalry be used? Surely not on horseback, [ … ]

The Austro-Hungarian Second Army was stationed in the mobilization turmoil at the beginning of the war, first on the Serbian front and was hastily returned to Eastern Galicia. Moving an [ … ]

No 45 was a Galician regiment, its military district was Eastern Galicia, so its staff consisted partly of Poles and Ruthens. The headquarters were based in Przemysl, but the cadre [ … ]