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World War I began when Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia in July 1914, following the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip. Austria-Hungary was one of the Central Powers, along with the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Austro-Hungarian forces fought the Allies in Serbia, on the Eastern Front, in Italy, and in Romania ...
The infantry regiments of the k.u.k. army had four battalions each; the infantry regiments of the k.k. and k.u. Landwehr had three battalions each, except the 3rd Regiment of the "Tiroler Landesschützen" (Tyrolian fusiliers), that had also four battalions. In 1915 units that had nicknames or names of honour lost them by order of the War Ministry.
At the outset of World War I, 58% of the regiment's soldiers were Hungarian, 31% were Slovak, while the last 11% were of another ethnicity. [7] During the Battle of Lutsk, the regiment engaged Russian forces where it, along with other Austro-Hungarian units, suffered heavy casualties.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of World War I infantry weapons. Austro-Hungarian Empire ... (Pre World War 1) Field guns.
The 1st Army (German: k.u.k. 1. Armee) was a field army-level command in the ground forces of Austria-Hungary during World War I.The army fought in Galicia and Russian Poland in 1914–15 before being briefly dissolved in the summer of 1916.
Infantry weapons. Steyr M1912 [1] [2] Rast & Gasser M1898 [1] [2] Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 [1] Mauser C96 [1] MP 34; MG 30; Schwarzlose MG M.07/12; Armored car. ADGZ; OA vz. 23 (police) Tankette. Carro Veloce CV-33; Carro Veloce CV-35; ADMK Mulus; Towed artillery. Skoda 75 mm Model 15; Skoda 100 mm Model 1916; 10 cm Feldhaubitze M 99; Böhler ...
The battle overshadowed Austria's victories over Prussia's Italian allies at Custoza and in the naval Battle of Lissa (Vis) off the Dalmatian coast in which a smaller Austrian fleet of ironclads overcame the Italians by ramming them. Following the end of the Seven Weeks' War, Austria experienced fifty years of peace until World War I broke out ...
Mountain infantry battle-dress after 1907 k.k. Landesschützen on Monte Pin The k.k. Landesschützen (in English, "imperial-royal country [ or provincial] riflemen") – from 16 January 1917 Kaiserschützen ("imperial riflemen") – were three regiments of Austro-Hungarian mountain infantry during the kaiserliche und königliche Monarchie (the ...