IR 62

The 62nd Infantry Regiment was part of the 35th Transylvanian Division. I already wrote about its use in the Great War in the post about the division here. The command and cadre of the regiment was in Marosvásárhely. Half of its crew consisted of Hungarians from the Mezőség region, and half of Romanians.

The owner of the regiment was King Louis of Bavaria. Here I present the rarer insignia of the regiment, on which the owner of the regiment and the monarch of the Monarchy can be seen in a joint portrait. The Kappenabzeichen is also matched to the letter-sealing stamp illustrated with the regiment’s previous battle scene. The name of the regiment owner can also be read on it, as well as the mentioning of battle of Győr in 1809. Although there were not many laurels there in the fight against Napoleon (“I’ve forgotten the valor of Győr!/When did you ever erect a memorial statue/For the many heroic feet that ran like that?”) Sándor Petőfi Hungarian poet wrote about the battle in his poem. Still, there were moments worth highlighting, such as Sergeant Stanczy’s military deed immortalized on the stamp.