Rare Hungarian Military Cap

[Markgraf]

My favourite hungarian military headdress: the so-called "leffentyűs*" cap of the RH National Army.

*"leffentyű" untranslatable word, means the bag-like tongue on the right side of the cap.

Archduke Joseph August's cap in the Hungarian Military History Museum.

The cap introduced sometime in first half of the year 1920.

The first documented use was on 20th August in 1920 the officers oath ceremony.

According the photos on this event the newly inaugurated officers wore the field (grey?) version, and some high-ranking guests (including Archduke Joseph August and his son Joseph Francis) wore the dark green dress version (see the next picture)

The last dated photograph with this cap made in october 1921 during Emperor Karl's second coup d'etat attempt (wore by a karlist soldier)

For the cap designed a special cap badge that can be seen the archduke's cap (and my avatar too).