Photos Austro-Hungarian Army in WWI

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Austro-Hungarian artillerymen assembling a Škoda 305 mm mortar during WWI

 

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The Minister of Defence of Hungary (sometimes called 'Honvedminister') from 1910 to 1917, Baron Samu Hazai, in a barbed wire covered trench near Sosnow on the Strypa, during a visit to the front in the winter of 1915-1916.

A beautiful bird of prey sits on a pole in a trench of the Austro-Hungarian Infantry Regiment No.88 in Galicia, 1915.

An Austro-Hungarian sentry inside an ice tunnel on the same Lanzenkopf on the Alpine Front, 25 April 1917. The soldier is wearing a snow coat and a white cloth cover for his field cap for camouflage.

An Austro-Hungarian soldier in a listening post in a trench on the Eastern Front, 1917. Note the 'Ersatz' (replacement) bayonet fixed to his Mannlicher M.1895 rifle. It consisted of little more than a twisted peace of steel with its end pointed.

 

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Bela Lugosi

 

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Austro-Hungarian soldiers pose with hares shot on a hunt behind the front, 5 December 1917. Photo was probably taken near Cervignano, Italy.

 

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13 cm gun of battery no. II5 at Forchana, 1918

80mm gun at Ortler South Tyrol, 09.1917.

75mm mountain artillery position on Campei, March 1918

Austro-Hungarian soldiers prepare to fire a captured Italian 24 cm Trench Mortar on the Piave Front, 29 March 1918. These weapons were of French origin, developed by the Batignolles Company in Paris.

 

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Coastal defense: An Austro-Hungarian anti-aircraft machine gun position on the Adriatic Coast.

380mm Mortar Barbara at Costa Alta May 1916.

24 cm Kanone M. 16 Italian Front 1917

A tablecloth and fresh flowers in the vase - Life goes on in the trench garden of Hauptmann Arpad Kattauer of the 14th Field Company of the Austro-Hungarian K.u.K Infantry Regiment No.35 near Pokropivna, 1 June 1916.

 

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Austro-Hungarian (Honvéd) NCO at the entrance of KuK field movie theater

High ranking officers and officials having a look at Škoda 30.5 cm M. 1911

A crew of Škoda 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone M.15 mountain gun with gas masks on.

Busa alta in background. Škoda 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone M.15 mountain gun

 

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Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 / Škoda 30.5 cm Mörser M. 11

42 cm L/15 Küstenhaubitze M. 14

Austro-Hungarian troops watch as a column of Scottish prisoners of war pass on a road in France, 1918.

American soldier is searching an Austro-Hungarian soldier captured in the Ornes-sector North of Verdun, during the fighting there between 8-11 October, 1918.

 

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Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield in his flying boat.

30,5 cm Skoda mortar with soldiers from the German Alpine Corps, 1915.

Testing air pressure on 15 cm field howitzer

Two Austro-Hungarian soldiers inspect a couple of abandoned Italian 30.5 cm artillery pieces on a road by Canale on the Isonzo River (today Kanal ob Soči in Slovenia).

 

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Captured artillery at Udine station, November 27th, 1917.

Dante's monument in Trento, 1917.

Austro-Hungarian troops operate a Schwarzlose M.07/12 machine gun on an air defense mount in front of Fort Cima di Vezzena, May 1916. This fort was built atop the mountain of the same name and overlooked the Sugana Valley.

Austro-Hungarian cavalrymen in a trench near Sinkow (Synkiv) on the Eastern Front, 1916. By this point, the majority of Austria-Hungary's cavalry units fought dismounted as regular infantry.

 

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Port of Ceggia, Veneto July 30th, 2018

An Austro-Hungarian field Rabbi with Jewish Officers and Soldiers in Trient during Passover 1918.

An Austro-Hungarian artillery unit advance across muddy terrain in pursuit of the retreating Serbian Army, November 1915.

Field Marshal Conrad visits the assault battalion in Selva near Levico April 28th, 1917