Hausner Gábor szerk.: A Hadtörténeti Múzeum Értesítője = Acta Musei Militaris in Hungaria. 8. (Budapest, 2005)
KÖZLEMÉNYEK - BACZONI TAMÁS: Övcsatok az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchiában 1888-tól 1918-ig és Magyarországon 1920-tól 1945-ig
sign in 1911. A wide variety of this M1911 type buckle was made, of stamped brass, copper, iron-plate, in one- and two-piece versions. The withdrawal of belt buckles in 1915, and the introduction of the simple centre-bar buckle belts affected the RHA, too. The RHA officer's belt was similar to the imperial version, but the middle-piece bore the Hungarian coat of arms. Several types of this buckle are known, interlocking, hook-andhasp, with brass, bronze, iron or even war metal frame. The RH Halberdier Life Guard, the Guard Unit of the Royal Court in Buda Palace had a characteristic Hungarian costume. They wore a gold-plated brass buckle, bearing the royal cipher ("IFJ") and this buckle remained unchanged even after 1916. The RH Crown Guard had a nickel-plated stamped belt buckle, bearing the Holy Crown insignia in bronze, from 1896. In 1909, for the new full-dress ("crown-dress") uniform, they were equipped with a "tulip-type" buckle, which bore the Holy Crown motif, while the Ml 896 buckle was retained for the service uniform. The Parliament Guard's (established in 1913) dress belt buckle was the same "tulip-type" as the RHCG's, but with the coat of arms instead of the Holy Crown. After the Great War, the reorganised RHA used common centre-bar buckle belts; the officers favoured the Sam Browne belt. Decorated belt buckles were retained for dress occasions. The Ml 924 officer parade belt was a historic-style belt, copied from the medieval weapon belts, and decorated with ornamented fittings. It had no real belt buckle, but the front side fitting-plate was decorated with the coat of arms. This belt had to be worn with the service and formal dress uniforms, but was very unpopular and abandoned in 1931. River Force officers had a Navy-type black silk belt (for the parade dress) with a round hook-and-hasp type buckle, bearing an anchor and an oak leaf wreath. Both stamped and cast versions of this buckle exist. Air Force officers had a black silk parade dress belt from about 1930, with a round hook-and-hasp buckle, bearing the symbols of the Air Force: the Holy Crown over a flying eagle, encircled by an oak leaf wreath and the motto "ISTENNEL HAZÁÉRT" (With God for the Homeland). This buckle exists in stamped and cast brass versions, both being gold-plated. AF NCOs wore a similar buckle on their brown leather belt, but in bronze instead of the gold-plated version. The Dismounted Life Guard wore the uniform of the former RHLG as "courtdress", even the old belt buckles (with "IFJ" cipher) were used until 1945. The RHCG belts remained unchanged until 1945, i.e. the M1896 buckle for the service dress belt, and the Ml 909 version for the "crown-dress" belt. The Parliament Guard had a new type of the parade dress buckle from 1930, decorated with the coat of arms, surrounded by two heraldic angels. The 1944 regulation prescribed the same form again, but a gold buckle plate with the coat of arms in silver for officers, and a silver buckle plate with the coat of arms in gold for EM. The belt buckles of the RH Police did not change between 1909 and 1945. Both the mounted and dismounted EM wore the rectangular belt buckle with an identification number, of stamped aluminium for the service dress leather belt, and of nickel-plated aluminium for the parade dress chain belt. Police sub-lieutenants had a special belt buckle decorated with the Holy Crown instead of the identification number. The Police officer's belt buckle was similar to the Ml 909 Army officer belt buckle, but the middle-piece bore the coat of arms, and the frame was not cast, but stamped of brass-plate. The State Fire Department's official belt buckles were distributed in 1941; the officer's parade dress buckle for the grey artificial silk parade belt, as well as the service dress buckle for the leather service belt had the same type of
