In 1918, the troops of the Monarchy had already defeated most of their opponents. Only on the Italian front did intense fighting take place, and in Albania did enemy troops [ … ]

The 50th infantry regiment was at home in Gyulafehérvár, an important city in Southern Transylvania, the center of the Romanians living there. Accordingly, the majority of its crew was of [ … ]

The 18th Honvéd Infantry Regiment was based in Sopron and was assigned to the 37th Division of Western Hungary. They fought primarily on the Russian front, in Transylvania in 1916 [ … ]

The German word means “fit for service”. In many Hungarian movies, it could be heard in scenes where the Monarchy’s war machine “digested” Hungarian youth with a language foreign to [ … ]

The XII. corps headquarters was placed in a neo-baroque palace on Schewisgasse (today Bulevardul Victoriei). Nagyszeben was the largest fortified city in Transylvania, so it was not by chance that [ … ]

Winter and the ski season are here: you can honor it with a ski badge. The ski troops were discussed earlier in connection with another badge here. I have now [ … ]

Cavalry was associated with great prestige in the Monarchy, but also worldwide. For a long time, especially heavy cavalry played an important role in wars. This role began to fade [ … ]

A beautiful, shield-shaped badge shows a portrait of Archduke Eugen, with the inscription Pussterthal below. It took a little research to find the place and also how the badge can [ … ]

The 37th Infantry Regiment was the regiment of Bihar County and Nagyvárad. The crew was made up of a mixed Hungarian and Romanian population living on the eastern edge of [ … ]

There is a very curious badge that shows a German and a A-H infantryman. In their hands, as in the case of the saints, are weapons as a sign of [ … ]

Located in the supplementary area of Northern Bohemia, this battalion had mostly Czech-speaking crew. The cadre was placed in Königrätz, the battalion was stationed in Lienz. They were assigned to [ … ]

He was a Prussian general, born in 1850 in Hildesheim and died in 1935 in Hanover. He began his military career in 1868 and before the Great War advanced to [ … ]

This small village on the border of Bukovina and Hungary, which may have been named after Colonel Dániel Papp, was mentioned in a previous post. I recently noticed a sketch [ … ]

The March 1917 attack of the 39th Division against Magyaros-tető was already among the posts on the site. This attack was so successful that it attracted the interest of foreign [ … ]

In the conditions of the Great War, the greatest danger to the troops standing in the trenches was the projectiles of the enemy artillery. In 1915, it became obvious that [ … ]

Most of the cap badges anyone could buy. This must have been especially the case with patriotic badges. It is less likely that for example the beautiful enamel badge of [ … ]

This regiment was the regiment of Szatmár County. The cadre was stationed in Szatmárnémeti. Its command located in Eperjes. The crew consisted of mixed Hungarian and Romanian nationalities. The year [ … ]

The Monarchy tried to provide a limited amount of assistance to Turkey’s war effort. This help primarily meant the transfer of artillery batteries. The activities of the von Marno mountain [ … ]

It was one of the regiments of the Transylvanian 16th Infantry Division. They were attached to the XII. corps  and fought through its battles. The cadre and battalions of the [ … ]

I wish the readers of the site lots of success and happiness for the coming new year!

We have today Gábor Széplaki’s latest post on special troops’ insignia. In 1915, with Italy’s entry into the war on the side of the Entente powers, completely new front lines [ … ]

In the Roundtrip series, the regiment was already featured once, when I described Znaim, the city of the headquarters of the regiment cadre. Then I uploaded the plate badge showing [ … ]

I wish blessed holidays for all readers of the site!

The structure of the KuK cavalry as seen at the beginning of the Great War was established after 1867. The three troop sorts (dragoons, uhlans and hussars) received their latest [ … ]

According to the inscription of the post card, it was the infantry regiment of the Eger Region. This area is located in Western Bohemia. During the Great War, this region [ … ]

This was a small-caliber artillery tool specially developed for trench warfare. His task was to destroy machine gun nests reinforced with sandbags and logs. Eliminating such strongholds with other available [ … ]

Several types of insignia were made for various infantry regiments. This gives me a chance to come back to some of them. This is also the case with the 44th, [ … ]

The 19th Infantry Regiment has appeared on the site several times. Therefore, in this post, I will not discuss his role in the war and his command. The reason why [ … ]

The 51st Infantry Regiment was part of the Transylvanian 35th Infantry Division throughout the Great War. They were active on the Russian front until May 1917, often assigned to German [ … ]

Along with airplanes and tanks, submarines were important military innovations of the Great War. Because of their novelty and the high hopes attached to them, they proved to be a [ … ]

In a previous post, I already wrote about medics. Their role in the care of the wounded was extremely important. The immediate care of the wounded and their transport to [ … ]

A new post by Gábor Széplaki: After the Russo-Turkish war, the question of the affiliation of the Balkan territories was resolved by a congress held in Berlin in 1878 with [ … ]

In February 1915, Turkey launched an unsuccessful attack on the British-controlled Suez Canal. The attack was repeated in July 1916. An Austro-Hungarian artillery unit, the von Marno Artillery Division, also [ … ]

In the series presenting the cities and landscapes of the Monarchy, I can now only show badges on which we see landmarks of other countries. The current badge and the [ … ]

I cheated a bit on this post. The post card belongs to the 13th Landwehr Field Howitzer Regiment and the badge belongs to the 13th Landwehr Field Cannon Regiment. Both [ … ]

In the Balkan wars, ever increasing areas of the declining Turkish Empire became independent in the second half of the 1800s. Bulgaria was like that too. In the new states, [ … ]

It was the main gun type of the Monarchy’s heavy artillery at the beginning of the Great War. The first version was commissioned in 1894. It was a recoilless gun [ … ]

One of the cap badges of the 15th dragoon regiment is worn on the picture on the left side of the cap as usual. The fashion for cap badges did [ … ]

A few weeks ago, I uploaded one of the postcards of the 3rd rifle regiment, part of a series. In this post, I present another very nice postcard from that [ … ]

The various air force units underwent rapid development during the Great War. The backbone of the branch was the two-seater reconnaissance aircraft. From 1917, fighter planes grew in number and [ … ]