This division included the 6th, 19th, 29th and 30th honvéd infantry regiments, which received crews from the central areas of the Kingdom of Hungary, mainly from the Danube-Tisza area. They [ … ]

Military cooperation between the Monarchy and the German Empire became as close as possible as early as 1915. The troops of the two countries fought shoulder to shoulder to defend [ … ]

In September 1917, the 20th Army Division was commanded from the more peaceful front of Volhinia again to the Italian front, even to the most difficult positions there. This job [ … ]

The 44th Infantry Regiment was a regiment of Somogy County, its replacement battalion was stationed in Kaposvár. The regiment was located at the beginning of the Great War in Vienna. [ … ]

In this series, I have presented badges depicting the settlements and sights within the administrative territory of the Monarchy. In order to keep the section running, we also need to [ … ]

In 1917, the owner of the 16th Üxküll-Gyllenband Hussar Regiment became  Empress Zita. On the occasion of this event, a badge was made in which the initial letter of the [ … ]

The offensive of the Central Powers, launched in May 1915, was exhausted by August. The Russian armies deployed in Russian-Poland were eventually not embraced and captured by German and Austro-Hungarian [ … ]

The two emperors Karl and Fanz Joseph can be seen on some cap badges in interesting hats with ancient feather decoration. If we visit Vienna, in the places preserving the [ … ]

Eduard Fischer was a descendant of a landowner family in Bukovina, born in 1862. After military training, from 1891 he continued his career in the gendarmerie. He became the gendarmerie [ … ]

The company ARKANZAS produced some badges to order, but in most cases only by intuition. They sensed how eager civilians and soldiers were to look for the badges, so they [ … ]

The design of the giant howitzer was started by Skoda Works in 1915. In 1914, to defeat the Belgian forts, the Monarchy sent 30.5 cm mortars to the Western Front. [ … ]

He was born in 1838 in Sachsenhausen, Germany. His family was of German descent on the Rhine, but his father had already become a colonel in the army of the [ … ]

Following the Gorlice breakthrough, the Allies sought primarily to repress the northern and central parts of the Russian front. In the south, near the Romanian border, the Russians were also [ … ]

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 [ … ]

The Monarchy built a fleet of monitor-type ships in the years before the Great War. One of these ships was SMS Temes, built in 1904. Its two turrets were located [ … ]

He was born in 1853 in Nagykároly. In 1875 he entered active military duty as a lieutenant. He took part in the occupation of Bosnia, where he distinguished himself by [ … ]

The artillery of the Monarchy underwent the greatest development during the Great War. The number of batteries and regiments set up expanded rapidly and the existing ones were often reorganized. [ … ]

This badge was placed in the special units category due to several oddities. The 29th Infantry Regiment was organized in Torontal County and had its headquarters in Nagybecskerek. One third [ … ]

By 1915, after the first8-9 months of the Great War, the troops of the Monarchy suffered extremely heavy losses. This was true for all types of regiments. Attempts were made [ … ]

The main curiosity of this post, of course, is not so much the badge of the 1st Army, which was one of the first cap badges by the way. Rather, [ … ]

The Honvéd and Landwehr regiments were considered rather second-line units before the Great War. This was also evident in the fact that when the line-up was sorted, the joint k.u.k. [ … ]

In the Great War, armored trains were used primarily on the eastern battlefield. The first assemblies were built by the Russians back in 1912 and were successfully used in Galicia [ … ]

It is not necessary to explain at length that the movement of armies of many hundreds of thousands is a huge logistical task. During the Great War, troops were able [ … ]

Following the Gorlice breakthrough, the retreat of the Russians lasted until the end of August, when they were finally able to set foot. Millions of people were killed in the [ … ]

Explosive objects thrown on the enemy by hand have been used by various armies since ancient times. In some ages, the application was very common. For example, from the end [ … ]

Dragoons can be included among special units through their historical traditions. In the past, there were several types of cavalry troops in the Monarchy. They had different armaments and were [ … ]

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 [ … ]

Znojmo is a district seat in the southern part of Moravia near the Austrian border. It has a rich historical past. The city flourished especially during the 14th-15th centuries. It [ … ]

He was born in Saxony in 1849 and studied agriculture in Halle. He began his military career in 1869 as a one-year volunteer. He took part in the Prussian-French War [ … ]

The organization of the honvéd hussars began after 1867, but the organizational structure established during the Great War was introduced only in 1914. Accordingly, 4-4 of the 10 honvéd hussar [ … ]

The names of the 20th Honvéd and the 17th Joint Divisions can best be associated with the defence of the southern section of the Italian front, the Karst Plateau. These [ … ]

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 Carpathian Winter Battle of 1914-15 decimated the regiments of the Monarchy. Moreover, the protracted two-front war overcame the calculations of previous war plans. Much more army, more infantry regiments [ … ]

One of my favorite badges. I think it’s a very beautiful composition, after all, I love Art Nouveau! The head in the assault helmet in the middle of the badge [ … ]

Archduke Charles-Louis was the first prince of the Teschen branch of the Habsburg family. He was born in Florence in 1771 and died in Vienna in 1847. He was a [ … ]

Giving the ultimate last honor to those who fell in battles was often very difficult or impossible during the Great War. Nevertheless, the Austro-Hungarian troops also tried to accomplish this [ … ]

In the Austrian provinces, the equivalent of the Hungarian Royal Honvéd forces was the Austrian Landwehr, whose regiments were later renamed Schützen Regiment. The battle value of these regiments was [ … ]

The 10th Hussar Regiment received its crew from the central regions of Hungary. His headquarters were in Budapest. Perhaps this central location is the reason why the regiment has received [ … ]

The 63rd Infantry Regiment in Transylvania recruited mostly Romanians and Saxons from the Beszterce area. The regiment did a great job during the war, although it was moved a lot, [ … ]

The 69th Infantry Regiment issued field postcards decorated with particularly many motifs. Some of these show a portrait of the regiment’s owner Paul von Hindenburg, as I presented earlier in [ … ]