IR 22

This huge and gorgeously enamelled badge has always caught my fancy. Which regiment did the special and expensive badge belong to (the 22nd), what can we find out about them? It was a Dalmatian regiment, its command was in Sinj. The settlement is not located on the coast, it should not be confused with the resort town of Senj. It is 50 km from Split in the mountains. Information about the history of the 22nd Infantry Regiment is described in the correspondence card used for this post. The regiment was founded in 1709, its hereditary regimental owner was field marshal Count Lacy, who was also the president of the court council of war in the 1770s.

The attached beautiful, colorful card could have been made before the war, just like the letter seals that immortalized regimental owners or the events of the regimental days. Paper antiquities of this type can still be found today in such large numbers and for so many units, which suggests that they were produced in a systematic and coordinated manner. There are postcard versions on which essentially only the regimental number and the inscription differ, the motifs are the same. It is questionable whether they were still used in the Great War. The copies I saw were not in circulation, they were unwritten postcards