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Austro-Hungarian sailors manning a 7 cm Škoda anti-aircraft gun aboard a naval vessel. All the sailors are wearing captured Italian Adrian helmets. Also note that one of the men is wearing a gas mask.

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2020-04-07

Fighting on the snow does have some advantages! For example, when one's hands are busy operating an artillery piece, the snow acts as a perfect holder for one's pipe 😆

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2020-04-06

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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2020-04-01

Something interesting: A column of camels pass an Austro-Hungarian army lorry, possibly on the Gallipoli Front.

The caption to this wonderful photo reads: "The most modern and oldest means of transport"

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2020-03-30

Legionnaires of the Austro-Hungarian Polish Legions man an old 7 cm Mountain Gun M.75 in the Gorgany mountains, 1915.

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2020-03-26

Something interesting: A group of Austro-Hungarian sailors pose for a photo with a large skate on the deck of a navy vessel in the Adriatic.

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2020-03-25

Austro-Hungarian ace (10 victories) Raoul Stojsavljević with his Hansa-Brandenburg D.I, 1917. Stojsavljević flew even before the war, and in 1913 he participated in the first flight over the Alps. He was killed in an crash in 1930.

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2020-03-24

Austro-Hungarian troops manning a 3.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz (Infantry Gun) M.15, 1917.

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2020-03-24

Two fez-wearing Austro-Hungarian 'Bosniaken' with a lamb in Galicia, 1914. The caption to this wonderful photo reads: "Before Przemyśl. Mohamed with lamb."

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2020-03-24

An Austro-Hungarian trench dug across a road in the shelled town of Skala on the Zbrucz River, 1917. I'm always fascinated by photos like these.

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2020-03-23

Heard that dentist appointments are being cancelled so as not to spread Looking at this photo of an Austro-Hungarian soldier in the dentist chair - maybe this is not such a bad thing after all! 😆

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2020-03-22

August Ritter von Meissl (1867-1921) was an official Austro-Hungarian "War Painter". Meissl was best known for his animal and military paintings, but was also known for drawing caricatures.

See thread for examples of his art.

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2020-03-09

Austro-Hungarian artillerymen check and adjust the pressure in the hydro-pneumatic recoil system of a 15 cm Heavy Field Howitzer M.14. Photo is probably from the area between Brody and Dubno in E. Galicia.

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2020-03-06

Early self propelled anti air artillery - an Austro-Hungarian armored truck fitted with a 7.7 cm AA-gun on the Italian Front, 1918.

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2020-03-02

Two Austro-Hungarian soldiers inspect an abandoned Russian Lanchester 4×2 Armoured Car in Galicia, Probably 1916. Note the gun shields and the small cupola on the turret, unique to the vehicles delivered to the Russian Army.

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2020-03-02

Something interesting: A very young legionnaire of the 4th Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Polish Legions with a Russian prisoner in Volhynia, 1915/16. Note the decorative eagle on the building in the background.

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2020-02-24

Another favorite of mine: An Austro-Hungarian soldier descent into the "city of ice" underneath the Marmolata/Marmolada glacier, 1916.

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2020-02-20

Supplying the army with meat - A series of photos from an Austro-Hungarian slaughterhouse in the town of Wladimir-Wolynskij in modern day Ukraine, 27 March 1918.

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2020-02-15

Looking forward to seeing the travelling exhibition "Fra dåre til patient" about war neurosis amongst Danish veterans of the First World War. Check the link to see where it is and when. It tours until September.

https://t.co/iBP6cgvLWw

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2020-01-15