8.1914 Kuk Feldpost to Osijek with Tarnstempel (28.Pučko-ustaška pukovnija)

8.1914  K.u.K feldpost to Osijek . Mailed from 3.battalion 28. Infantry regiment of Croatian Landsturm ( 28.Pučko-ustaška pukovnija). Regiment was part of 104.Landsturm brigade that fought in Serbian campaign. Brigade  was exclusively Croatian made of 4 Croatian Landsturm Regiments.

Card was canceled with Tarnstempel :  9132 in Square box. Tarnstempels or "Dumb" (tarn=hidden) cancel were originally used to cancel Postal money orders , at the beginning of war they were used instead of usual postal cancels to conceal location of mailing.

They were mostly used in Galicia in 8-11.1914 and in Tirol 6-10.1915 , usage in other areas is very rare.

This card was posted from Serbian front and this is  the first  usage of Tarnstempel i have seen on the feldpost card mailed to Croatia. Sender notes that his Feldpost number is Fp.9 (bojna pošta 9) that served 104.Landsturm brigade at that time.

1.1944 Wehrmacht Wirtschafts Sicherungs Bataillon Kroatien to Dresden

 

 

 23.01.1944 Official registered letter to Dresden from Fp.30420C - 2.komp. Wehrmacht Wirtschafts Sicherungs Bataillon Kroatien. Mailed via Feldpostamt 530 , its head office was in Zagreb. It uses  Kenn number -176, which is present in Felpost cancel and register label . Arrival cancel Dresden is on the back of the cover, as well as straight cancel Dienststelle Fp.30420C.

 

4.1944 - 3.doknadna lovačka bojna to Zemun, NDH

 

 29.04.1944 card from 1.sat 3.doknadna lovačka bojna in Hrvatska Mitrovica to Zemun. Postage was prepaid with card and Ratni doprinos(war tax) was charged with 1.kuna stamp. Writer ask how are things in Zemun after heavy (allied) air bombing. 

 

 

12.1915 KuK card 22.Inf.rgt to Drniš

 07.12.1915 Feldpost card from 22.Infantry Regiment to Drniš,Dalmatia. Regiment was part of 13.Gebirgs(Mountain) brigade and sender writes his adress as Fp.88 which served 13.Geb.brig. Card was mailed via Fp.304 used by 18.Inf.division on Italian front

6.1943 - 187.Reserve division to Wien

 

 30.06.1943 official registered cover to Wien from Fp.42860 - Reserve-Pionier-Bataillon 86 of  187.Reserve division. Division didn't have its own Feldpost and used Felpostamt No.530 of Army group E , that used Kenn number 176,  its head office was in Zagreb and it had branches in Slavonski Brod(Brod N/S) and Banja Luka. On 22. December 1943 187.Division was renamed 42.Jager Division and Reserve-Pionier-Bataillon 86 was renamed Pionier-Bataillon 142.