Armies in the Balkans 1914–18Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012 M05 20 - 48 pages Recent history should remind us that it was events in the Balkans which sparked off the Great War, with the assassination of the Austrian heir Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, and the consequent invasion of Serbia by Austro-Hungarian armies on 2 August 1914. Nevertheless, the subsequent four-year war in that theatre is always overshadowed by the simultaneous campaigns on the Western Front. For the first time this book offers a concise account of these complex campaigns, the organisation, orders of battle, and the uniforms and insignia of the armies involved: Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, Serbian, Montenegrin, Albanian, British, French, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian. |
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1st Army 2nd Army 9th Army Adrian helmet Air Corps Albania Army Group Art.Brig Art.Regt Art/How.Rgt artillery regiment August Austro-Hungarian AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMY badge Balkan Battle of Doiran black 2/3 red breeches Brig bright red British Salonika Army Bulgarian button-colour buttons Cav.Rgt Cavalry cloth dark red cockade collar patches companies comprised crown cuff dark blue cloth dark red cloth divisional Dobrudja Durrës Dusan Babac Collection Eng.Bn Evzone field cap field tunic field uniform forces French Gendarmerie German greatcoat Greek grey-green Honvédség Inf.Brig Inf.Div Inf.Rgt Infantry Division Infantry Regiment insignia khaki Macedonia machine gun Military Moldavia Monastir Montenegro Mt.Art.Bn NCOs November October officer’s Ottoman OTTOMAN EMPIRE Ranks red cloth dark red cloth gold red red Regiment dark Rumanian Salonika Sector September 1918 Serbian Army Serbian Volunteer Corps service and field Shkodër shoulder boards shoulder straps silver/gold squadrons troops tunic Vardar Wallachia Western Western Thrace