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WWI Kappenabzeichen Austria Heeresgruppe Böhm-Ermolli Cap Badge by G. Gurschner
$ 25.87
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Description
Original Austrian cap badge pin “Kappenabzeichen” for the Army Group Böhm-Ermolli.Bears the crests of the Central Powers. Germany Austria and the Ottoman Empire. The words
Heeres Gruppe Böhm-Ermolli Welt Kiege.
Manufactured by the renown
G. Gurschner of Wien, stamped on the reverse.
Working hinge.
Army Group Böhm-Ermolli was an Army Group of the Austro-Hungarian Army, which operated on the Eastern Front against Russia, from 19 September 1915 to 25 July 1916 and again from 4 October 1916 to 24 January 1918 during World War I. It was commanded by Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli.
Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli 1856-1941, was an Austrian general during World War I who rose to the rank of field marshal in the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was the head of the Second Army and fought mainly on the front of Galicia during the entire conflict. On 30 October 1940, Böhm-Ermolli was made a German Generalfeldmarschall.