THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMY 1914-18

FOR COLLECTORS OF ITS POSTAL ITEMS
by
JOHN DIXON-NUTTALL

CONTENTS

Chapter 8: The Postal Service of the Austro-Hungarian Army


Back to main introduction Back to chapter 8 introduction Armee- , Feld- , Etappenpostdirektionen FPO in-service dates FPO Lists 1-299


Chapter 8 Appendix C

IDENTIFICATION OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN FIELD POST OFFICES 1914-18

FPOs 300 up

300 (1,2,3) seen 9/14  
6/15 Feldpostdirektion 12 (EtGp12, later 3 Armee)
301 (1) 12/14? HptRayon Küstenland (5 Armee HpFpA)
302 (2) 8/15-7/16 48 ID
303 (2) 9/14-10/15 1 ID
304 (2) 10/14-7/17 18 ID
from 22/8/16 57 ID [See '18 ID' in section 6D]
305 (2) 9/18 Isa opAK (5 Armee opAK, OK Balkan, Kmdo Balkanstreifkrafte)
306 (2) 10/14, l/16, 11/16 15 GbBrig
307 (2) 12/14 Sarajevo (11 Armee Expos. Galliano, 17 GbBrig)
308 (2) 11/14 kk Lst 4/27MaKomp ?Rogatica
1-2/15 FsI Baon II Sarajevo
4/16 IR3/39 18 GbBrig
6/16 IR III/49 9 GbBrig
309 (2&3) 3/15 kk Lst4/27MaKomp (?XVI Kps)
310 (2) 11/14 ?Sarajevo
3/15 XV Kps
8/15 mobResspital
12/15-4/16 XV Kps
8/16 GbTelgAbt 1 (?XV Kps)
311 (2) 9/14-11/15 XVI Kps
4/17 Gb TelgAbt 3
312 (2) 1/16 50 ID
313 (2) 5/16 Intendanz VII Kps 16 LstGbBrig
314 (2) Not seen (?XV Kps)
315 (2) 4/16, 3/17 20 GbBrig (Durazzo)
316 (2) 9/16 Feldspital 10/2
4/17 28 LstGbBrig
10/17 mobEpidemieSpit
317 (2) Not seen (?? 59 ID)
318 (2) 6/17 RFHR 203
5/18 on SWFront
9/18 Feldspital? (?Gp Hadfy)
319 (2) 6-12/16 14 GbBrig
320 (2) 3-11/16 58 ID
321 (3) 8/16 Seetransportleitung Bewachungskmdo (Absch V Fiume)
322 (2&3) 8/15 187 BrigMunKol
10/15 SeebezirkKmdo Triest; 187 LstIBrig and/or Trieste
323 (3) 9/15-7/16 58 GbBrig
324 (3) seen 8/15

 

10/18 MWBt6 FAR 16 Pergine/Levico; line of communication Innsbruck-Trient
325 (2&3) Not seen (?XV KpsMaForm)
326 (3) Not seen (XV KpsMaForm, earlier GpObst Leüesch)
327 (3) 7/15 VII KpsTrain
8/15 XVI KpsMaForm
6/16 EtTrainZug3 Opovovic
328 (3) 11/15 III Kps or 5 Armee area (?VII KpsTrain)
329 (3) 11/15 111 or VII Kps
1/16 XVI Kps? (VII Kps Train)
330 (3) 11/15-5/16 5 ArmeeEK Laibach
331 (2) 9/16 24 LstGbBrig
332 (2) 1/16 Sabac (Serb) (2 Armee opAK/HGp Böhm-Ermolli, Ostarmee AK)
333 (2) 1/16 Obrenovac (Serb), 7/16 QAbt 9 (EtGpKmdo9)
334 (2) 1/16 Vuljevo (Serb)
4/18 Czernowitz (7 ArmeeEK/7 GenKrndo/4 Armee Expos Czernowitz)
335 (2) 1-3/16 Aranglelovac (Serb) [See also FPA 233]
seen 1/18 (from early 1917-Nisch)
336 (2) 6/16 47 ID
337 (2) seen 12/16  
4/17 5 Armee area (Gp Braun)
338 (2) 5/16 GbBrigSanAnst 104
12/17 Ulciny
2/18 212 LstIbrig
4/18 VirpazarBar Kmdo
339 (2) 4/17 IsaEK
6/17 Seebezirkskmdo
12/17 Kmdo Isa Personnelsammelstation
8-9/17 IsaEK (Gp Obst Törk, then 5 Armee, later Isa)
340 (2) 3/17-12/17 4 ArmeeEK Chelm
6/18 4 GenKmdo
341 (3) 3-5/16 Prjepolje (Serb)
7/17 SanFeldDepot 13
5/18 IR 124
5/18 Heimkehrelager 103
342 (3) 2/18 mob Krankenhaltsta 7/3 (?Niksic (Monte.))
343 (3) 9/17 IR 42
10/17 Chelm, earlier Podgorica (Monte.)
344 (3) 3/16 Dalmatien Metrovica
345 (3) 3/16 Albanie
5/16 mob Epidemiespital 1
12/17 Skutari
346 (3) 3/17-9/18 QAbt 16, 16 GenKmdo
347 (3) Not seen  
348 (3) 3/17 Hugheszentrale ?Poland or Russia
349 (3) Not seen (?Cetinje)
350 (2&5) 3/15, 2/16 55 ID
351 (1,2,4,5) 11/15, 6/16 7 Armee EK
352 (2&5) 4/16 KBrig Kranz
6/16 XI Kps (?7 ArmeeEK)
353 (2&5) 10/17 I Kps
354 (2&5) 2/15 128 LstIBrigKmdo
2/17 4 ArmeeEK Lemberg (later 4 GenKmdo)
355 (2) 4/15 FJB 13
12/15 2 Brig Polen Leg
356 (3) 10/16 5 Armee Absch IIIb formerly Gp Schenk)
3/17 XXIII Kps
357 (2&3) 2/16, 10/16, 3/17 VII Kps area
358 (2&3) 3/17, 9/17 5 Armee, ?XV Kps area
359 (2&3) 11/16 XVKps or 5 Armee area
360 (2&3) 9/16 FJB2
4/17 MaBaon SchR37 (?XVI Kps area)
5/18 Italy
361 (2) 12/16-8/18 14 ID
362 (2) 12/17, 5/18 72 ID
363 (2) 4/17 71 ID
7-9/18 53 ID
364 (2) 8/17 HochGbKomp 4 Brig(Gp) Fasser
365 (5) 2-4/17 42 HID
366 (1) 7/17 PersonnelSammelStation Brest-Litowsk
367 (5) 5/17 AusBildGp72
12/17 MaBaonIR6
9/17 & 3/18 MaKomp HIR18
1/18 AusBildGp 15 (?III Kps)
368 (2) 12/16 18 GbBrig
369 (2) 2/17-9/18 6 ID
370 (2) seen 8/16 & 5, 9/17  
12/17 2 Isa opAK
371 (2) Not seen  
372 (2) 10/16-10/18 Rayon 1, later Brig Lempruch and 164 Ibrig
373 (2) 9/16 3 GbBrig
374 (2) 10/17, 10/18 XVI Kps
375 (2) 6/17, 6/18 XV Kps
376 (2) 9/16-2/17 94 ID
377 (2) 5/17-2/18 7 KD
378 (2) 2/17 Polen Leg
379 (5) 9/18 Innsbruck or Bozen (XIII Kps)
380 (2) 2/17-12/17 Kps Hofmann, later XXV Kps
381 (2) 4/17 ArmeeTelfAbt 5
5-7/18 Isa opAK, formerly 5 Armee opAK)
382 (2) 10/16 22 GbBrig
383 (2) 9/17, 4-10/18 5 Armee Absch V Triest
384 (2) Not seen (? 1 LstHusBrig)
385 (2) 9/16-8/17 22 SchD
386 (2) 9/18 11 Armee QAbt (??III Kps)
387 (2) 1/17-5/18 3 KD
388 (1) seen 1,4,6/17; 1/18 2 Armee area (2 Armee/ Ostarmee HptFpA)
389 (2) Not seen (?1 Brig Pol Leg)
390 (2) 9/17 Kmdo XXII Kps, former Kps Fath
391 (2) 4/17 28 ID
392 (2) 12/16 ?96 IBrig
11/17 56GbBrig
1-3/18 FsABaon 1? Bruneck (Pustertal)
393 (2) 7/17 179 IBrig or 9 GbBrig (probably 9 GbBrig)
394 (2) Not seen (?Romania)
395 (2) 3,5,9/17 1 KJB
5,7/17 2 KJB (?58 GbBrig later 1 KJB)
396 (2) 2-8/17 6 GbBrig
397 (2) 11/17-10/18 51 HID
398 (2) 9/16-10/17 1 LstIBrig (?63 ID from 2/16)
399 (2) seen 10/16, 9/17, 12/17 (?III Kps area)
400 (1) 12/16 Cattaro (EtGp XIX Kps /AGp Albanien, KmdoGen BHD)
401 (2) 10/16-4/18 8 ID/KJD
402 (5) 3/17, 7/17 2 KD
403 (2) 10/16-7/18 3 ID/EdwD
404 (2) 8/17 Luftfahrtruppe BallonKompagnie
seen 12/17 (?KavKps Hauer)
405 (2) 9/17-9/18 29 ID
406 (2) 3/17-9/17 Triest& Fiume
1/18 ?EtGp Belluno
6/18 IsaEK from this date
407 (2) seen 7/17  
2/18 GbAR 11 Bt 5
6/18 52 ID
408 (2) 8/17-7/18 11 ID
409 (2) 2-3/17 9 KD
410 (2) 2/17 XIX KpsEtGp
411 (2) 8/17 QAbt 16
412 (2) 11/16-2/18 2 ID
413 (2) 8/1 1 Armee opAK
414 (5) 2/17-6/18 40 HID
415 (5) 4-11/17 41 HID
416 (2) 2/16, 4/18 7 Armee?
417 (5) 3/17-4/18 20 HID
418 (2) 4/17, 12/17 IX Kps
419 (2) 3/17-7/18 6 KD
420 (2) 9/16-8/18 58 ID
421 (2) 11/17 XVIII Kps
422 (5) 4/17-11/18 37 HID
423 (2) 1/17-3/18 54 ID / 54 SchD
424 (2) 2/17-4/18 VI Kps
425 (5) 4/17-10/17 39 HID
426 (2) Not seen (24 LstGbBrig / 124 IBrig)
427 (5) 5/17-1/18 7 ID
428 (2) 4-11/1 IV Kps
429 (2) Not seen

 

430 (2) 9/17 10 GbBrig
431 (2) 2/17, 4/17, 11/17 19 ID
432 (2) 1/17 komb ID Pustertal
8/17 Absch Judicarien Rayon III; 49 ID
433 (5) 9/17-6/18 11 HKD
434 (2) 2-10/17 24 ID
435 (2) 2/17 202 HIBrig
7/17-9/18 74 HID
436 (2) seen 12/17, 10/18 (XVII Kps)
437 (2) 1/17, 1/18 Rayon III, later XX Kps
438 (2) Not seen (14 GbBrig, later 94 IBrig)
439 (2) 5/17-9/18 21 SchD
440 (2) 2/17-4/18 VII Kps
441 (3) Not seen  
442 (3) 2/18 KgfArbKomp 789 (?Romania)
443 (3) seen 12/17  
444 (1) seen 1-12/17 4 Armee HptFpA, later 4 GenKmdo
445 (3) 4/17 ?5 Armee, VII Kps
5/17 ?XXV Kps
446 (6) Not seen  
447 (6) Not seen  
448 (6) 5/17, 11/17, 5/18 EtPA Cholm
449 (6) 1/18 Donauflottile
450 (6) 5/18 Heimkehr in Stanislau
451 (2) 6/17 Konstantinopel
7/18 HbBt i d Türkei
452 (2) Not seen (6/17 Aleppo)
453 (2) Not seen  
454 (2) 10/17-10/18 12 rtSchD
455 (2) Not seen  
456 (2) 1/18 92 ID / 16 GenKmdo
457 (2) Not seen  
458 (2) Not seen  
459 (2) Not seen  
460 (2) 9/17 Sofia
461 (2) Not seen (179 IBrig)
462 (2) Not seen  
463 (2) Not seen  
464 (.2) Not seen  
465 (2) 10/17-6/18 IsaEK, 1 IsaEK
466 (2) 10/17 DivSturmKurs 10 (?XXIII Kps)
467 (2) 11/17-7/18 2 IsaEK, later Belluno (?6 Armee)
468 (2) 8/18 6 ArmeeEK
469 (2) 11/17 Gp Hordt
7/18 Elektrokomp 3/5(Isa)
8/18 201 Ibrig (XVI Kps res, Codroipo)
470 (2) Not seen  
471 (2) Not seen  
472 (2) 4/?16 Heeresbahn Nord
1/18 2 Armee area
473 (2) 11/17 d.Gp Berrer d. 14 Armee, 12/17 ?Isa
474 (2) 2/18 DivAusBildGp 50 Ariano
6-10/18 6 Armee area
475 (2) 6-10/18 10 ArmeeEK Bozen/Trient
476 (2) 6/18 DistriktsKmdo (?Italy)
477 (2) 12/17, 1/18 EtSta Tolmezzo
478 (2) 2/18 EtBezirk Longerone
479 (2) 2/18 Feltre area
480 (1) seen 1/18 (2 IsaHptFpA)
481 (2) seen 1/17, 4-8/18 (Pasubio) ?KJD or 1 KJB
482 (2) 2-10/18-11 ArmeeEK
483 (2) 9/18-11 ArmeeEK (?Meran)
484 (2) Not seen

 

485 (2) 3/18 Elektrokomp 4/11
486 (2) 3-10/18 56 SchD
487 (2) seen 4/18, 8/18 Isa area
488 (2) 12/17-Isa, 5/18 Laibach?
489 (2) 1/18 Feltre area
490 (2) 4/18 Kmdo 6 Armee
491 (2) seen 12/17, 1/18 11 Armee area
492 (2) 2/18 ?Folgaria area
493 (2) 9/18 Per La Camaria (6 Armee area)
494 (2) 3-8/18 EtGp Belluno
495 (2) 9/18 Villach - Expos für EtGp Belluno
496 (2) Not seen  
497 (2) Not seen  
498 (3) Not seen  
499 (3) 1-2/18 Udine
7/18 Paulini (1917 FpVermittlungstelle Laibach, early 1918 Udine) Wechselstube 7-9/18
500 (1) 2/18 AutoKol 352 (11 Armee HptFpA)
501 (2) seen 1-2/15 (?1 Armee area)
502 (2) 2/16 I KpsTrain
503 (2) 5-10/15 ?II KpsTrain
504 (2) Not seen (?V Kps Train)
505 (2) 1/15 Feldspital 5/10 (?X KpsTrain)
506 (2) Not seen (?XVIII KpsTrain)
507 (2) 10/15 ?VI KpsTrain
508 (2) 11/16 5 ArmeeEK
509 (2) 1-10/17 3 Armee opAK
510 (2) 10/16, 2/17, 2/18 10 ArmeeEK earlier at Villach
511 (2) 10/116, 1/17, 9/18 11 Armee ?opAK
512 (2) 7/16 QAbt für Tirol
8/16 QAbt HGp EH Eugen
1/18 11 ArmeeEK
10/18 11 Armee QAbt
513 (2) 4/18 Kmdo der Mal...Gp
514 (2) seen ? LV Tirol (ppc of Meran) (XX Kps, later XIV Kps
515 (2) 5/17 Isa opAK (5 Armee opAK, HGp Soroevic)
516 (2) 7/16 12 ArmeeKmdo (Hfront / HGp EH Karl, HFront EH Joseph, 6 Armee)
517 (2) 10/16-6/17 Riva
1/18 Tomeabru
518 (2) Not seen (73 ID later 60 ID)
519 (2) seen 9/17 (EtGp 16 -bei d. 9 Armee, 16 GenKmdo)
520 (1) seen 8/17, 4/18 (QAbt 16 HptFpA)
521 (2) 4/17-10/18 1 ID
522 (2) 4/17, 5/17 96 IBrig
11/17 56 GbBrig
2/18 96 IBrig
523 (5) 5/18, 9/18 64 HID (former 53 ID)
524 (2&5) 3/17-1/18 56 SchD
525 (2) 3-9/17, 8/18 50 ID
526 (2) 4-7/17 21 LstGbBrig
527 (2) 8-10/18 47 ID
528 (2) Not seen (?8 GbBrig)
529 (2) 5/17-7/18 10 ID
530 (2) 11/17-8/18 8 KD
531 (2) Not seen (?on SW Front)
532 (2), seen 5/18 ?11 Armee
seen 10/18 ?6 Armee
533 (2) Not seen  
534 (2) Not seen  
535 (2) 1/18 Feldspita1 218 (? 6 Armee area)
536 (2) 3-9/18 6 Armee area
537 (2) Not seen  
538 (2) Not seen  
539 (2) Not seen (V Kps)
540 (2) to 1/18 Villach; then Sillian
541 (2) Not seen (? on SW Front)
542 (2) 8/18 Brixen
9/18 10 ArmeeAusBildGp
543 (2) 7/18 49 ID
544 (2) Not seen  
545 (2) Not seen  
546 (2) Not seen  
547 (2) Not seen  
548 (2) Not seen  
549 (2) 3/18 Kriegshafenwaffendepot
8/18 Pola
550 (1) Not seen (6 ArmeeHptFpA)
551 (2) 10/18 Feltre area
552 (2) Not seen (? OstFront)
553 (2) 3/18 kk LstEtBaon 412
4/18 Baukomp 4/40 (? Krakau)
554 (2) Not seen (? on SWFront
555 (2) Not seen (?on SWFront)
556 (2) Not seen (?Romania)
557 (2) Not seen  
558 (2) 5/18 Feldspital 219 ?II Kps Italy (?Bukowina)
559 (2) Not seen  
560 (1) Not seen (EtGp Belluno)
561 (2) Not seen  
562 (2) Not seen (EtGp Görz)
563 (2) Not seen  
564 (2) Not seen  
565 (2) Not seen (?Ost Front)
566 (2) Not seen  
567 (2) Not seen  
568 (2) Not seen  
569 (2) Not seen  
570 (2) Not seen  
571 (2) Not seen (EtStelleWest Trier)
572 (2) 8/18 kuk Gruppenleitung der 41H (41 H.Dag) Italy
573 (2) Not seen  
574 (2) Not seen  
575 (2) Not seen (?Tirol)
576 (2) 8/18 II Kps area
3/18 11 Armee area
10/18 AusBildGp
577 (2) Not seen (?on SW Front)
578 (2) Not seen  
579 (2) Not seen (in Trentino?)
580 (2) 9/18 Villach (from 6/18 FpVermittlungstelle Villach für Pakete in Bereich EtP HGp Boroević)
581 (2) Not seen  
582 (2) Not seen  
583 (2) 6 or 7/18 Heimkehrer-übernahmstation Brecy
584 (2) Not seen  
585 (2) Not seen  
586 (2) 10/18 BrigAusBildGp, KpsAusBildGp der 10 Armee
587 (2) Not seen  
588 (2) Not seen (Neukirch bei Salzburg, KavAusBildGp)
589 (2) Not seen  
590 (2) Not seen (?WFront north of Verdun)
591 (2) Not seen  
592 (2) Not seen  
593 (2) Not seen  
594 (2) Not seen (?in Trentino)
595 (2) Not seen  
596 (2) Not seen  
597 (2) Not seen  
598 (2) Not seen  
599 (2) Not seen  
600 (3) 9/15, 6/17 Oderburg
601 (2) 5/15 ResSpital Brüneck (komb ID FML Goiginger)
8/16 seen
602 (2) 7/15-3/17 57 GbBrig
9/16 HochGbKomp 25
603 (2) 6/15, 6/16 Rattendorf 94 ID (incl 25, 59 GbBrig)
604 (2) seen 12/15, 4/16 (? 53 HaBrig)
605 (2) 12/15 Süd-Tiröl (93 ID, later ?55 ID)
606 (2) 3/16 10 Armee Kmdo (AGp Rohr opAK and EK, 10 Armee opAK and EK)
607 (2) Not seen (1915/16 91 ID, 1916 Rayon Fiume)
608 (2) 2/16 92 ID Tarvis
609 (2) 5/16 XVI Kps area (59 GbBrig)
610 (1) 11/15, 6/16 Villach (AGp Rohr, 10 Armee HptFpA)
611 (2) 6/16 Rayon II
1/17 Gp EH Peter Ferdinand Rayon II
612 (2) seen 11/15-7/17 Hermagor / Rattendorf (EtGpKmdo 10, Gp Kmdo Fernengel , 26 & 29 GbBrig
613 (2) 3/16-8/18 90 ID later 18 ID
614 (2) 7/15, 11/15 in 5 Armee Absch IV
615 (2) 7/15-8/16 55 GbBrig
616 (1) Not seen  
617 (2) 8/17-10/18 35 ID
618 (5) 3/17, 10/18 15 ID
619 (2) Not seen (20 LstGbBrig, later 202 IBrig)
620 (1&4) seen 4/XX MaKomp IR 13 (1 Armee and 3 Armee HptFpA, later 1 GenKmdo)
621 (2) 4/17-9/18 59 ID
622 (2) Not seen (?4 Armee AusBildGp)
623 (2) 10/17 Luftfahrtruppen Feldwetterzentrale SüdTirol
1/18 HGp Conrad (AGp EH Eugen, AGp EH Joseph, AGp Conrad)
624 (2) 3/17-10/17 57 GbBrig
625 (1) 2/17 Hilfsplatz Platzwiese
626 (5) Not seen  
627 (2) 3/17-7/18 26 SchD
628 (2) 8/17-8/18 48 ID
629 (2) 3/17-8/17 15 GbBrig
630 (1) 12/15 Salzburg
1/16 Innsbruck (8/15-3/16 LV Tirol incl Salzburg but not Süd-Tirol; later 11 Armee)
631 (5) 3/17-7/17 1 KD
632 (5) 4-8/17 32 ID
633 (2) seen 3-11/17 (?56 GbBrig)
634 (5) 1-4/17 36 ID
635 (5) 3/17-9/18 5 HKD
636 (2) 2/17 7 GbBrig
4/18 2 IBrig
637 (2) Not seen  
638 (2) 4/17-10/18 30 ID
639 (5) Not seen (?211 LstIBrig)
640 (5) 12/17 70 HID
641 (2) 4-10/17 13 GbBrig
642 (5) 5/17-6/18 34 ID
643 (2) 3/18 IR 41 43 SchD
644 (5) 3/17-4/18 27 ID
645 (2) 11/18 62 ID (?Focsani)
646 (2) 5/17-8/18 44 SchD
647 (5) 4/17-4/18 17 ID
648 (5) 7/17 31 ID
649 (5) 7/17-3/18 55 ID / 155 HID
650 (5) 11/16 6 KausBildGp
2/17 Marmarosziget
3/17 AusBildGp 63 ID
5/17 Offiziers Kurs in Huszt
5/18 5 HKD (?7 Armee area)

Only those post offices in the 1000 series which have been identified are listed here:

1058 (2) Bt 6 FAR 54 (KD) 10/18 Odessa FAR 27
1060 (2) 10/18 XXVI Kps Brento
1062 (2) Odessa area
1066 (2) Cattaro
1067 (2) never opened: destined for Damascus but at Konstantinopel 26/9/18
1074 (2) Fiume, Adria Verkehrsleitung
1100 (1) HptFpA for Austro-Hungarian troops on W Front

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Last updated 3 Apr 2001