Special units

Machine gunners
I believe that one of the most formidable weapons of the Great War was the machine gun. Artillery destroyed more ...

Detachment Fráter
From the staff of the divisions disembarking from the horse, the command of the Monarchy converted temporary mounted detachments for ...

Trench mortars
The 22cm heavy trench mortar was already shown here before. The image in this post is another nice shot that ...

100 years of Kaiserschützen
Tyrol’s status changed several times in the Austrian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. Bonaparte Napoleon separated away the ...

Mounted squadron of the 1st Cavalry Division
The reader may rightly ask, “What is special about a cavalry squadron belonging to a cavalry division? Riders among riders! ...

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

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

Cycling battalions
This was a truly special troop, as among the innovations of the age, in addition to motorization, the muscle driven ...

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