Though you got to wonder from which part of empire this guys were, there could be mixed everyone from German Austrians, Czechs, Croats, Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Hungarians, Slovenes and even Serbs and Italians on this photo
joinville_x
What are the wooden staff/handle things many are wearing on their backs?
![Assault squad posing for photo somewhere in the woods (by uniforms and weapons probably Austro-Hungarian), WW1, circa 1917/1918 [3076 x 2348]](https://i.redd.it/jwzxeqnc34h41.jpg)
BagginsBible
Guy all the way to the right has me cracking up.
tommybmoney
I zoomed in to see what they were wearing and whatnot, and then I get to the guy on the right… I love him
WellingtonBlucher
Definitely Austrian, that officer collar rank tabs are very distinct, they got Steyr-Hahn pistols and Austrian Zeitzünder rod grenades http://www.inert-ord.net/rod02h/aus_gurg/index.html.
Though you got to wonder from which part of empire this guys were, there could be mixed everyone from German Austrians, Czechs, Croats, Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Hungarians, Slovenes and even Serbs and Italians on this photo
joinville_x
What are the wooden staff/handle things many are wearing on their backs?