Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria - Military

Military

The Kingdom was divided into three major military districts centered in Kraków, Lwow, and Przemyśl. Local military used a specialized language for communication known as Army Slav. One of the major army units was the 1st Army consisting of 1st (Kraków), 5th (Pressburg), and 10th (Przemyśl) Corps.

Selected units (1914)

Eight out of 11 Lancer regiments were located in Galicia (see Uhlan)

  • 1st Galicia Lancer Regiment of Ritter von Brudermann (85% Poles) (Regimental language Polish)
  • 2nd Galicia Lancer Regiment of Fürst zu Schwarzenberg (84% Poles) (Regimental language Polish)
  • 3rd Galicia Lancer Regiment of Archduke Carl (69% Poles, 26% Ukrainians) (Regimental language Polish)
  • 4th Galicia Lancer Regiment "Kaiser" (65% Ukrainians, 29% Poles) (Regimental language Polish and Ukrainian)
  • 6th Galicia Lancer Regiment of Kaiser Joseph II (52% Poles, 40% Ukrainians) (Regimental language Polish and Ukrainian)
  • 7th Galicia Lancer Regiment of Archduke Franz Fedinand (72% Ukrainians, 22% Poles) (Regimental language Ukrainian)
  • 8th Galicia Lancer Regiment of Count Auersperg (80% Poles) (Regimental language Polish)
  • 13th Galicia Lancer Regiment of Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli (55% Ukrainians, 42% Poles) (Regimental language Polish and Ukrainian)
  • 1st Army Lancer Regiment (65% Ukrainians, 30% Poles)
  • 3rd Army Lancer Regiment (69% Poles, 26% Ukrainians)
  • 4th Army Lancer Regiment (85% Poles)

One Dragoon regiment

  • 9th Galicia-Bukowina Dragoon Regiment of Archduke Albrecht (50% Romanians, 29% Ukrainians) (Regimental language Romanian and Ukrainian)

10 Infantry regiments

  • 16th Army Infantry Regiment "Krakau" (82% Poles)
  • 17th Army Infantry Regiment "Rseszow" (97% Poles)
  • 18th Army Infantry Regiment "Przemyśl" (47% Ukrainians, 43% Poles)
  • 19th Army Infantry Regiment "Lemberg" (59% Ukrainians, 31% Poles)
  • 20th Army Infantry Regiment "Stanislau" (72% Ukrainians)
  • 32nd Army Infantry Regiment (91% Poles), Tarnów
  • 33rd Army Infantry Regiment (73% Ukrainians), Stryi
  • 34th Army Infantry Regiment (75% Poles), Jarosław
  • 35th Army Infantry Regiment (68% Ukrainians, 25% Poles), Zolochiv
  • 36th Army Infantry Regiment (70% Ukrainians, 21% Poles), Kolomea

Two Artillery divisions

  • 43rd Field Artillery Division (55% Ukrainians, 25% Poles), Lemberg
  • 45th Field Artillery Division (60% Ukrainians, 25% Poles), Przemyśl

Five Feldjäger battalions (Military Police)

  • 4th Galicia Feldjäger Battalion (77% Poles), Braunau am Inn (Rzeszow district)
  • 12th Bohemia Feldjäger Battalion (67% Czech, 32% German), Cavalese (Kraków district)
  • 14th Feldjäger Battalion (47% Ukrainians, 43% Poles), Mezzolombardo (Przemyśl district)
  • 18th Feldjäger Battalion (59% Ukrainians, 31% Poles), Trient (Lviv district)
  • 30th Galicia-Bukowina Feldjäger Battalion (70% Ukrainians), Steyr (Stanislav district)
Others
  • 10th Engineer Battalion (50% Poles, 30% Ukrainians) (Przemyśl)
  • 1st Sapper Battalion (50% Poles, 23% Germans, 23% Czechs) (Krakau)
  • 10th Sapper Battalion (50% Poles, 30% Ukrainians) (Przemyśl)
  • 11th Sapper Battalion (48% Ukrainians, 32% Poles) (Lemberg)
  • Polish Legions
  • Ukrainian Legions, later as part of the battle group of Archduke Wilhelm
  • 1st Ukrainian Cossack Rifle Division (1918)

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