Austria Hungary WWI Cap Badge KuK 3rd Army Defense in the Carpathians 1914 1915 by Swoboda & Gurschner

Austro-Hungarian Empire: Patriotic WW1 cap 
badge of the 3rd Army for the “Defense in the 
Carpathians, 1914 - 1915”. 
Signed by G. Gurschner and F. Swoboda in 
Vienna.
The cap badge presents KuK soldiers defending 
their entrenched position on the mountains of 
the Eastern Front against the Russian bear.
During the years 1914 - 1915 the 3rd KuK Army, 
initially under the command of General of the 
Cavalry Rudolf Ritter von Brudermann and later 
under the command of General Svetozar Boroevic 
von Bojna, took part in the Battle of Galizia and in 
the defense of important mountain passes in the 
Carpathians against the advancing Russian Army. 
In Jan. 1915 supported by the German South 
Army the 3rd KuK Army spearheaded the 
unsuccessful offensive against Russian positions 
on the Mountains in an attempt to relieve the 
besieged Przemysl  fortress. By Feb.1915 the 3rd 
Army had suffered losses of around 88.000 men 
(about 75% of its initial strength) that led to its 
brief disband in June 1915. 

WW1 1914 1918

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