Austria Hungary WWI Cap Badge Landesverteidigung Tirol Kaiser Franz Joseph for the Defense of Tyrol 1915

Austro-Hungarian Empire: Patriotic WW1 Cap 
Badge for the "Defense of Tirol". 
With the portrait of Kaiser Franz Joseph, dated 
1915.
The WW1 "Defense of Tirol" (or the Italian Front, 
or the Mountain War) was a series of battles at 
the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy, 
fought between 1915 and 1918. 
In the outbreak of WW1 Italy declared neutrality, 
despite being a member of the Triple Alliance 
alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary since 
1882. 
In 1915, Italy surprisingly declared war on 
Austria-Hungary, entering WW1 on the side of 
the Allies, aiming to the annexation of the 
Austrian Littoral and northern Dalmatia, Trento 
and South Tirol, through a surprise offensive. 
The Austro-Hungarian defense however soon 
turned the operations into trench warfare, very
similar to the Western Front, but at high 
altitude, with very low temperatures. 
A rare cap badge.

WW1 1914 1918

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