Sunday, 27 October 2024

11.1915 KuK feldpost from 53.IR Dankl to Novi Slankamen in Sriem, Croatia


 02.11.1915(?) K.u.K feldpost card dated in text mailed from 1.company of 16.Replacement battalion(I./XVI.Marsch. komp) of 53.Infantry regiment. 53.IR recruited in Croatia mostly in area around Zagreb, but  this One Year volunteer was from Novi Slankamen. As noted in adress city is located in "Kroatien,Sriem, Slavonien", at the time it was mostly populated by Croats. Mailed via Fp.44 used by 36.Infantry division at the time figthing in Galicia. Text is in Croatian. 

Present are cancels : CENSURIERT - censored, Weiterleiten - forward( to be mailed), K.u.k I.R Dankl No.53 /  I./XVI.Marsch. komp : a units cancel , and hungarian- german canel: A hadrakelt seregrol / Von der Armee im Feld : from the army in the battlefield ( used to not reveil units location).

Sunday, 13 October 2024

2.1944 Sanitats-Kompanie 392 (Kroatien) to Retfala(Osijek).

 



13.02.1944 card sent to Retfala (today part of Osijek) from Fp.31185 used by Sanitats-Kompanie 392 (Kroatien) of 392. Croatian (Blue) division. Card has no visible postal manipulation with only green censors markings present. 

Its possible that card traveled through postal system without any markings but its more likely that card was part of a letter as  german censors always marked every paper sheet in letter with such green censors numbers, hence postal cancels applied on the cover of the letter are not present.

Sunday, 6 October 2024

6.1943 Parcel card to Command of Railway protection force "LIKA"


 


08.06.1943 parcel card for a packet mailed  from Delnice to a sergeant  in Radio station Ogulin that was part of  "Zapovjedničtvo Osiguranja željezničke mreže "LIKA" in Ogulin"( Command of Railway protection force "LIKA" ) with nice unit cancel in purple.

During the second half of 1942 , Command of Railway protection force "LIKA"  was formed with 3 Railway protection battalions , I. , II. and III. ŽESTRA bojna (Željezničarska Stražarska Bojna). It was part of Domobranstvo(Regular army).

Commands HQ was in Ogulin.

I.ŽESTRA bojna was in Brušani near Gospić, with 3 rifle companies and one Machinegun company - around 900 men

II.ŽESTRA bojna was in Oštarije near Ogulin  with 3 rifle companies and one Machinegun company - around 800 men

III.ŽESTRA bojna had HQ in Lešće near Otočac with 3 rifle companies and one Machinegun company - around 600 men