I started the presentation of the Austro-Hungarian cap badges and the stories about them a year ago. According to the counter, this is the 440th post. Of course, most posts [ … ]

There is a creepy badge. At first it appeared without a rim, and it was impossible to know that it was the badge of a military unit, a battalion. The [ … ]

In the third year of the Great War, Romania was finally determined to attack the bleeding Monarchy. There were many military and diplomatic reasons for the delay, but as the [ … ]

The Kappenabzeichen of the Great War were made by at least two dozen manufacturers. The largest of these were the Austrian companies Brüder Schneider, Gurschner and the Budapest company Arkanzas. [ … ]

Romania was a small Balkan country that was only in its fourth decade of independence during the Great War. Taking advantage of the loss of European space of the Turkish [ … ]

Military life is not easy, separation from loved ones is perhaps the most difficult. In times of war, it is more so as the enemy fires back. The enthusiasm documented [ … ]

The statue was ordered in the spring of 1915 by the Augusta Fund and the Military Aid Office to raise donations. The work was entrusted to Ferenc Sidlo, a well-known [ … ]

In the series of mock badges, this current piece again shows the Austrian private teaching the enemy. The subject suffering from the funny scene is an Italian. A Bersaglieri, judged [ … ]

Franz Joseph’s motto: “Through United Strength!” in the Great War, this was, above all, a force united with the Germans. German-Austro-Hungarian friendship appeared on many propaganda badges. One of the [ … ]

Italy, a former ally of the Monarchy, entered the Great War in 1915 alongside the entente. The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, Italy) had been abandoned several years earlier. The Italians [ … ]