r/Austrohungarian

k.k. Landwehrinfanterieregiment „Wien“ Nr.1 on our traditional exercise around May 1st around the historical Liechtenstein castle near Vienna

photo: https://pl.pinterest.com/maximousov/austro-hungarian-battleships/

Dr. Emil Mayer FRPS (3 October 1871 – 8 June 1938) was an Austrian photographer, lawyer, inventor, and businessperson.

source and more informations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Mayer

https://au.pinterest.com/pin/vienna-austria-by-emil-mayer-1900s1910s--733242383060570648/

photo: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205355157

It is interesting to note the particular metal sheath designed by the Austro-Hungarians for the bayonet of this rifle. These rifles were captured in large quantities and reused on the Italian front even in the front line.

The Mosin–Nagant is a five-shot, bolt-action, internal magazine–fed military rifle. Known officially as the 3-line rifle M1891,in Russia and the former Soviet Union as Mosin's rifle (Russian: винтовка Мосина, ISO 9: vintovka Mosina) and informally just mosinka (Russian: мосинка), it is primarily chambered for the 7.62×54mmR cartridge.

Developed from 1882 to 1891, it was used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other states. It is one of the most mass-produced military bolt-action rifles in history, with over 37 million units produced since 1891. Despite its age, it has been used in various conflicts around the world to the present day.

Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosin%E2%80%93Nagant www.moisinmuseum.com

This is a typical group of k.k. Gendarmerie in the 1899 pattern blue uniform. The Imperial Decree of 5 July 1899 introduced a leather spiked helmet for the Austrian Gendarmerie replacing a feathered cap worn prior to this date. This in turn was replaced following the Decree of 25 May 1902 by the pattern in cork for security duties, the leather version still being used for parades.

Now, whereas the peacetime Gendarmerie were the k.k. Gendarmerie in the Austrian half of the Monarchy and the k.u. Gendarmerie in the Hungarian half, those Gendarmerie elements mobilised for service in the field became the k.u.k. Feldgendarmerie.

photo: https://flickr.com/photos/56019607@N02/5254106979

Source: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/austro-hungarian-heavy-artillery-action

The rifle on the improvised table should be an 8 mm Mannlicher mod. 1888/90

The mess tins and the pre-war aluminum flasks make me think that the photo was taken in the first months of the war

Source: Jörg C.Steiner: Der k.u.k. Hofstaat - 1858-1918. ALBUM Verlag für Photografie, Wien 1997, ISBN 3-85164-048-9

Elez Dervišević (1901–1988) was an Austrian-Hungarian soldier and one of the youngest soldiers in the First World War, although he is beaten for the honour of the youngest soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces by Ivica Dragićević (most likely born 1908)

He was born in 1901 to a prominent Bosniak merchant family in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His parents were Sulejman and Munevera. He had two brothers, Osman and Mehmedalija and one sister, Safija.

Beginnings edit At the beginning of the First World War, during the mobilisation of the Austro-Hungarian Army, Ademaga Mešić with his own funds, mobilised 450 volunteer troops and stationed them on the Austria-Hungary border on the river Drina. Dervišević's brother, Mehmed, joined the group and was later promoted to captain. At age eleven, Elez left school to defend Austria-Hungary with Mehmed."[3]

Battles of the Isonzo edit When Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, the 91st Czech Infantry Battalion was ordered to Soča. The teenaged Dervišević volunteered to help the Czech infantry at Soča supplying food for the battalion. The Czech officer stationed there, Alois Martinek, asked the local Protection Corps commander to help guide him via the river Sava and the region of Slavonia, to which he agreed. However, Dervišević abandoned his task to jump on the train with the army to become a soldier. He was discovered only after he got to Soča. After hearing of this, Martinek ordered him off the front line. At first, Dervišević was a courier. Then a commander brought him to see the Bosniak forces in action. From a safe distance he watched as the Third Regiment of the Bosniak attacked and overran the Italian positions. Dervišević and an officer captured three Italian soldiers, and because of this the boy was promoted to corporal. At fourteen he was the youngest soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army. After nineteen months of service Dervišević was hit by shrapnel in the lower jaw and Martinek sent him to a hospital in Vienna. When he recovered he was stationed in Wielburg castle. He took care of the Ernsthaler family, who enrolled him in cadet school in Bratislava.

At the end of the First World War, Dervišević returned to Bijeljina. The new Kingdom of Yugoslavia wanted to promote peace and unity, thus any demobilised Bosniak soldier of the Austro-Hungarian army, which had attacked the Kingdom of Serbia without a probable cause, was given clemency, meaning that they were allowed to return to their homes without any hindrance, and would be treated as Yugoslav subjects. Upon arriving he was greeted by the mother and the brother of Osman Munevera. In 1925 he visited the Ernsthaler family and the Archduchess Isabella who lived in Hungary. As a gift from her, he received 5,000 florins. He used the money to start an agricultural export company. He became a successful entrepreneur in Kingdom of Yugoslavia and his business flourished until the Second World War. After the end of war, he went to Syria, where he took the rank of major in the reserves of the Syrian Army. He died in Syria in 1988. He was buried in Damascus. He was survived by two daughters and two sons.

For his service in the First World War, Elez Dervišević received the silver medal for Bravery 2nd class, the bronze medal for Bravery and the Medal of Military Merit, all from countries that were defeated in the war.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elez_Dervi%C5%A1evi%C4%87

https://9gag.com/gag/aMEvby1

https://bosna.hr/elez-dervisevic-djecak-iz-bijeljine-koji-je-postao-najmladji-austrougarski-oficir/

https://nagyhaboru.blog.hu/2020/04/02/elez_dervi_evi_a_monarchia_legifjabb_katonaja

source: https://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/ImageDetail.aspx?p_iBildID=15737636

source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/377950593734375125/

source: https://in.pinterest.com/pin/323766660703410790/

My compliments to the modeller!

photo: https://www.mojehobby.pl/products/Austro-Hungarian-Military-Police-WW-I-62395544.html

photo: https://www.pinterest.it/pin/alpine--612278511827573529/