3-077-727 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Austro-Hungarian Army on the Turkish Frontier, 1890. '1. Infantry soldiers' uniform and overcoat; sergeant in full-dress uniform; officer in camp uniform. 2. Officer and infantry soldiers, camp uniform. 3. Recruiting at Bangaluka, Turkish Croatia. 4. Tambour-major, drummer, trumpeter, parade uniform. 5. Imaum, or Turkish clergyman, with his Koran-bearer...as there are now over two millions of trained men in the Empire, the war organisation of Austria-Hungary may be taken as complete...The dépot troops consist of 205 depot battalions and some few battalions of reserve Landwehr. Lastly, as regards territorial defence, the Tyrol and Dalmatia are well secured; three divisions stand in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and 210 territorial Landsturm battalions remain on the home territory, with some depots of recruits. Our Illustrations show the infantry uniforms of the regiments which are raised on the Croatian frontier, and some incidents of recruiting. It should be remembered that there is a Turkish or Mussulman population in the Bosnian and other provinces of the southwest, now comprised within the Austrian Empire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.