Special units

The sapper troop of the Monarchy was created by the reorganization of the technical troops in 1912. Previously, pioneer battalions

Eduard Fischer was a descendant of a landowner family in Bukovina, born in 1862. After military training, from 1891 he

This badge was placed in the special units category due to several oddities. The 29th Infantry Regiment was organized in

It is not necessary to explain at length that the movement of armies of many hundreds of thousands is a

Dragoons can be included among special units through their historical traditions. In the past, there were several types of cavalry

Giving the ultimate last honor to those who fell in battles was often very difficult or impossible during the Great

In the excellent post of Miklós Szanyi (here) we could read about the formation of the spotlight branch, and here

The Great War brought the development of many kinds of technical innovations. The best known were obviously the largest and

In the winter of 1914, the Russian attack reached the line of the Carpathians. Most of Bukovina and Galicia fell.

I recently received a very nice Kappenabzeichen with the caption on the title. I definitely wanted to know what kind