Original Austrian WWI Mountain Infantry Officer Kepi with Edelweiss Pin - Landesschützen British Awards Medals Badges Insignia made during the pre-war period

made during the pre-war period

Models A and B were EIC flintlock muskets converted to percussion

and after leaving continued to raid shipping in the Pacific

The gun had a fluted cylinder and was produced sequentially in three center fire calibers

Unfortunately after the war

Original Austrian WWI Mountain Infantry Officer Kepi with Edelweiss Pin - Landesschützen British Awards Medals Badges Insignia made during the pre-war periodOriginal Item: Only One Available. The mountain infantry of Austria have their roots in the three Landesschtzen regiments of the Austro Hungarian Empire. The mountain infantry of modern Germany carry on certain traditions of the German Alpenkorps (Alpine corps) of World War I. Both countries' mountain infantry share the Edelwei insignia, established in 1907 as a symbol of the Austro Hungarian Landesschtzen regiments by Emperor Franz Joseph I. These