TR009 The Archduke Franz-Ferdinand & His Wife Sophie K&C First World War This soldier wears a shell

This soldier wears a shell jacket and trousers made from high quality British army cloth imported into the Confederacy throughout the war

Brilliant colors were used to render the device: the raptor and its shield

Rhode Island

NOR030 German Fallschirmjager Running with MP40

TR009 The Archduke Franz-Ferdinand & His Wife Sophie K&C First World War This soldier wears a shellOn Sunday, 28 June 1914 the heir to the throne of Austria Hungary, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the Archduchess Sophie were on a visit to Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro Hungarian providence of Bosnia Herzegovina. While there a young Bosnian extremist, Gavrilo Princip, shot and killed the Royal couple as they drove through the city. The assassinations, along with a European arms race, hyper nationalism, the military ambitions of