Kappenabzeichen on postcards

Looking back, cavalry in the conditions of the Great War seems incredibly outdated. In times of devastating artillery attacks, trench

The Austro-Hungarian Second Army was stationed in the mobilization turmoil at the beginning of the war, first on the Serbian

No 45 was a Galician regiment, its military district was Eastern Galicia, so its staff consisted partly of Poles and

The 13th Honvéd Infantry Regiment was the home regiment of the city of Pozsony. A war memorial was erected also

The badge of the Austro-Hungarian 7th Army is again a common badge, it is included in every collection. On the

The “sponge cake” shaped general assault badge is a sought after but not unattainably rare badge. It is included in

The 14th Landwehr was headquartered in Brünn. Brünn was and still is the capital of Moravia, home to many military

My friend Gábor Vásárhelyi sent me some of his great-grandfather’s memorabilia to help me find out where he was in

One of the best known badges is the subject of the current post. Its inscription ‘Tirol – Landesverteidigung’ recalls mainly

Not only regiment badges and army badges appeared on postcards printed during the Great War. The Office of Military Aid