Austria Hungary WWI Cap Badge KuK Balkanstreitkrafte (Balkan Troops) Kaiser Franz Joseph Viribus Unitis 1914 1915 by Gurschner

Austro-Hungarian Empire: WW1 patriotic cap 
badge for the KuK Balkan Troops (Balkan Army).
Inscribed "Bankanstreitkrafte" (Balkan Troops) 
with the portrait of Kaiser Franz Joseph and the 
motto "Viribus Unitis" (Power in Unity). 
Dated 1914-15.
Maker marked by Gurschner in Vienna.
The K.u.K. Balkan Troops (or Infantry of Bosnia-
Herzegovina) were consisted of 4 Infantry 
Regiments and 1 Field Rifle Battalion. 
They had their own distinctive uniforms and were 
given their own numbering sequence within the 
KuK Army. 
The men were of Serbian, Bosnian and after 1916 
of Albanian origin. 
About 35% of them were Muslims.

WW1 1914 1918

Item 100% original 

Condition as on the photos

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