Special units

Polish Legion

At the beginning of the Great War, independent Poland did not exist. The territories inhabited by Poles were owned by ...
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Genie troops

Warfare requires very much a solution of technical problems. This applies to all areas of the use of military force ...
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Cycling battalions

This was a truly special troop, as among the innovations of the age, in addition to motorization, the muscle driven ...
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Austro-Hungarian Navy

The Austro-Hungarian Navy was the sixth strongest in the world on the eve of the Great War. The development of ...
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Sappers

The sapper troop of the Monarchy was created by the reorganization of the technical troops in 1912. Previously, pioneer battalions ...
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Colonel Fischer’s combat group

Eduard Fischer was a descendant of a landowner family in Bukovina, born in 1862. After military training, from 1891 he ...
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29th reserve IR II. battalion

This badge was placed in the special units category due to several oddities. The 29th Infantry Regiment was organized in ...
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Military transport lines

It is not necessary to explain at length that the movement of armies of many hundreds of thousands is a ...
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Dragoons

Dragoons can be included among special units through their historical traditions. In the past, there were several types of cavalry ...
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Funerals, ceremonies

Giving the ultimate last honor to those who fell in battles was often very difficult or impossible during the Great ...
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