WW1 Serbian and Montenegrin Weapons - a photo on Flickriver

            The Russian M1857/69 Krnka rifle was a breech loading conversion of the old russian six line muzzle-loading rifle model 1857, it fired the 15.24x40 R Krnka black powder ammo. This kind of conversion from muzzleloading to breech loading was quite popular during 1800’, the French developed the Tabatieré system, and the British the famous Snider conversion. It was used during the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish war.

The Mauser-Koka Milanovic M1880 was an update of the old single shot Mauser M1871 caliber 10.15x63 mm, nearly 50,000 of them were converted to the model Mauser-Koka-Duric M1880/07, the barrels were refurbished to a 7x57 mm and the modified rifles received a 5 shot magazine.

The Wänzl rifle was the breech loading conversion of the old percussion muzzle-loading rifled Lorenz musket M1854 and M1862. It was chambered for the 14x33 mm R Wänzl cartridge. The Lorenz was one of the best if not the best rifled long weapon of the first half of 1800’, and the first to adopt a compression bullet. About 20,000 muskets were sold to the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. 70,000 Lorenz rifles were converted to Wänzl befor the adoption of the Werndl-Holub M1867.

The Serbian Mauser M1899 was the ordnance rifle of the Serbian army, it was a variant of the Chilean Mauser M1895 and was produced by  Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken of Berlin, it was chambered for the 7x57 Mauser ammo.Length 1234 mm, weight 3,9 kg , 5 rounds magazine

The Berdan Rifle was the ordnance rifle of the Russian Imperial Army, before the introduction of the Mosin-Nagant M1891, it fired the 10.75x58 R mm black powder cartridge, the first model M1868 was a trapdoor breechblock action, while the second version M1870, here presented, was a bolt action. Several thousend of specimen were given to the Montenegro and to the Serbian Kingdom. During WW1 the Russian received about 40,000 Berdan II rifle converted to the Ordnance smokeless powder cartridge 7.62x54 R mm.

For a 3D tour of the Berdan M1870 I suggest to pay a visit to this wonderful website of the Tula Arsenal: heroes-arms.ru/en/berdan.html

The Montenegrin Gasser pattern revolver was a huge and sturdy single or double lock action six-chamber pistol chambered for the 11.25x36 mm cartridge. Existed several kind of various shape of Montenegrin Gasser pattern revolvers made in Belgium, Austria and Spain, produced for the Montenegrin Militia, since a royal edict imposed to every male of the Kingdom the commitment to get one of this weapon.

The revolver M1873 system Chamelot Delvigne has been the Ordnance revoovel of the French Army in the late 1800’ whose caliber was 11 mm.

The Sajkaca was the field hat of the serbian army.

The small Serbia had the most  efficient system of mobilization of those countries that participated in the First World War.
Together to the first and second line there was the third ban that enlisted men between the ages of 40 and 45, and those who were in good health until the age of 70 years, the older were affectionately called baba, which means uncle.
Serbia resisted stubbornly until the end of 1915, when a pincer joint attack of Austro-Hungarian, German and Bulgarian surrounded his arm. Rather than surrender the army took the road of the mountains retiring to Albania, where an Italian expeditionary army  covered his retreat up toward Durazzo and St John of Medua.
The retreat was epic, took place in the winter of rugged mountains, cold, hunger, disease and attacks by Albanian decimated the refugees,  from 500,000 came to the Albanian ports only 150,000.
The Italian Navy transported the survivors to Curfù, where they were re-organized and redeployed on the Macedonian Front. For this scope the were and equipped with French weapons and material, like the Ruby pistol, the Berthier musket or the Chauchat light machine gun

Taken on: April 19, 2019

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