A fairly rare and much sought for badge is the IR 30 badge with the image of the Salcano railway bridge. The defense lines of the Monarchy on the Italian [ … ]
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Sturmbaon 58
The 58th Division was deployed on the Italian front. Its backbone was made up of mountain-trained troops, battalions of the 4th and 5th Mountain Brigades. In 1917, the 96th Infantry [ … ]
Anti-aircraft unit badge
In the great reorganization of the Monarchy artillery in early 1918, mixed artillery regiments were established. This meant that the previously separated field gun and howitzer regiments had been dismantled. [ … ]
Infantry Battalion VI/48
Almost all k.u.k. regiments sent one battalion for mountain training. It is rather obvious that warfare in the mountains requires substantially different skills, in many times also different equipment is [ … ]
IR 32
The 32nd Infantry regiment was the house-regiment of Budapest with long historic traditions. The permanent owner of the regiment (Regimentsinhaber) was Empress Maria Theresia. Her portrait is featured by the [ … ]
IR 38
The cap badge of the Infantry Regiment No. 38 is one of the very much desired objects of Kappenabzeichen collectors. It is mainly due to the motives of the badge. [ … ]
Honvéd ITD 51
The 51st Honvéd Infantry Division was set up in 1915 to replace the former 23rd Division which served during the siege of Przemysl fortress and got prisoners of war in [ … ]