4.1915 - K.u.K, 79.Inf.Rgt "Graf Jellačić" to Lovran , Croatia

 06.04.1915 Feldpost card from K.u.K Otočaner Infanterie regiment Graf Jellačić No.79 to Lovrana (Lovran) on the east coast of Istria in Kvarner Bay.  Mailed va Fp.111 that served 7. Infantry division fighting in Galicia. 

Interestingly someone put a wrong date in the canceller and applied Fp. cancel on the right with wrong year and month in it.  It was noted so cancel was crossed with blue pencil, and a new correct Fp. cancel is on the left.  Sender is an Oberst(Colonel)in regiment and writes to his wife in Villa Else in Lovran, Villa is still in use today as an luxurious turist accomodation. Although surname on the card in Croatian, text is in German. 

4.1944 card Osijek to 2.posadni sat Petrovaradin(7.posadni zdrug)

 03.04.1944 Easter card(Easter was on 09.04.1944) from Osijek to a Domobran in Petrovaradin. On card is written 2.posadni sat, Dunav or 2nd garrison company ,Danube. In Petrovaradin was stationed 2.sat IV.bojna, 7.posadni zdrug (2nd company, 4th battalion of 7th garrison brigade). 

In 1944, 7.posadni zdrug did garrison duty in Srijem: 

HQ, Signal company and pioneer company were in Hrvatska Mitrovica

1.battalion was in Ruma 

2.battalion was in Trpinja

3.battalion was in Hrvatska Mitrovica

4.battalion was in Petrovaradin (2.sat in Petrovaradin, 3.sat in Hrvatska Kamenica)

7.1944 - Regiment 1.Brandenburg in Croatia(Dalmatia) to Berlin.

 

30.07.1944 letter from Fp.25722 C - 6.kompanie II. Batallion of Regiment 1. Brandenburg Division to Berlin. In March 1944 Regiment 1. Brandenburg with II and III. batallion was transfered from Greece to Croatia, in area between Knin - Benkovac - Trogir in northern Dalmatia, I. Batallion arrived two months later. Regiment served as a mobile reserve in case of anticipated Allied landing on Croatian Adriatic coast that never happened. Therefore Brangerburger's were solely used in counterinsurgency actions against Partisan communist guerillas. In September 1944  Regiment 1. Branderburg was transfered out of Croatia to Serbia to fight advancing  Red Army.

New Acta Philatelica Nova 2023 and an interesting K.u.K navy card.

 

New 'Acta Philatelica Nova 2023' came out last week , my article about Feldpost of K.u.K. Croatian division - 42.domobranska "Vražja" divizija (42.Landwher Infanterie division -'Devils division') was published in Acta. Inside are some very interesting philatelic aricles, and  Acta is bilingual magazine written in Croatian and English. You can order it directly  from publisher Marka Nova philatelic shop, email:  berislav.pervan@gmail.com

Below follows a beautiful KUK navy card from before WW1.

11.12.1894 card posted from Lagos (today Nigeria) to Hector Račić a cadet on S.M.S Laudon in Pola. Transit cancel Liverpool UK 12.01.1895 , arrival cancel Pola 15.01.1895

At the back is a pencil note that this card was mailed by a crew member of  SMS Donau during its voyage  1894/5, when ship visited  Tangier, Tenerife, St. Louis in Sengal, Dakar, Freetown, Siera Leon, Lagos, Duala and Bahia. It is impossible to verify this from the card, but is also likely.

SMS Laudon was renamed SMS Schwarzenberg in 1900 and served as a  Navy school training hulk in Sebenico during WW1.

SMS Donau become a Navy school training hulk in Sebenico in 1905, and served in this capacity during WW1.