IR 18

Here again, a better-known badge follows, to which I can attach a stamped correspondence letter and a letter seal.

The 18th Infantry Regiment was a Silesian regiment, three-quarters Czech and one-quarter German-speaking crew. At the turn of the century, the command and staff of the regiment was in Olmütz, and before the war in Königgrätz. The regiment was owned by Archduke Leopold Salvator. He was the chief inspector of artillery in the Monarchy’s armed forces in the rank of general colonel. The letter seal is decorated with his portrait.

The 18th infantry regiment belonged to the 10th division, which was in the IX corps in northern Bohemia. It was used throughout the Great War on the Russian front, first in the 4th Army and then as part of the 2nd Army. During the Brusilov Offensive, they were transferred from the scattered 4th Army to the German Southern Army.