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I am very curios about the small medals, miniature medals like this ones?   

15 hours ago, Simius Rex said:

I don't know where you are finding all these nice portraits, but most of these guys (or maybe even all of them) look Hungarian !!

I work in a museum, i also teach history, but obviously austro-Hungarian uniforms is not my speciality. I recently developed a interest in ww1 uniforms and this site helped me a lot. Can you suggest some serios books on this subject?

How can i tell if this guy is cavalry or artillery?  

The picture was taken in Maramureş (Máramaros) and indeed it is an aria were the majority of the population was not hungarian 

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On 18/07/2020 at 05:12, Simius Rex said:

I'm fairly certain that the guy standing with his wife is a Magyar Királyi Csendőr szakaszvezető (Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie corporal) wearing a qualification badge for a csendőr járőrvezető (patrol leader.) 

Beleive it or not, the rank of corporal of the gendarmerie was actually "csendőr" and not "szakaszvezető" which was a bit confusing because ANY member of the Hungarian gendarmerie was also called a csendőr, regardless of rank. 

The stripes on his lower left sleeve are service stripes.  Each thin stripe represents 3 years of service and the thick stripe represents "long service" which I believe is either 5 or 7 years, but it's been so long that I don't remember the exact number. 

I found an interesting photo of a group of Hungarian csendőrs on the internet as well as a photo of a csendőr patrol leader's badge.  Simi.    

Austrian Gendarmerie?

Could be the same guy?

Thanks, Simi!

Thank you very much, Bayern!!! The second one is quite strange. The field cap without peak  was exclusive for  cavalry and artillery?  

Hello, So black fur collar are Husar and gray Ulan. They are the only ones that were this type of collar?

the last one (black fur collar) has a infantry shoulder strap and also the cut of the uniform doesn't look like cavalry and no long boots.   

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much! 

artillerie ingenieur-assistant ????

Thanks! now that is interesting! How the hell they end up in the town of Sighet (Sziget in hungarian ) today northern Romania ?????? I can tell almost for sure that the picture was taken in 1919-1920. One possibility could be that they are former prisoners of war  

it is  made in 1919-1920

I recently started to have an interest in Austro -Hungarian uniforms and i can recognize a cavalry uniform (the saber, the shoulder  cord ). I can also recognize the collar badges, but i can see any deference between artillery and infantry. Can anybody tell me what are the main difference in uniform? For exemple the form of the collar or the type of their boots          

This is another interesting one 

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Thanks!

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