Bosnian soldiers in Turkey?

[gyuresz]

I have found some pictures showing Austrian troops in Turkey wearing tropical uniforms including the tropical helmet. I got the pictures from different sources, but they were possibly taken at the same time and at the same unidentified location. What is interesting for me is that some of the soldiers wear fez together with the standard Austrian uniform:

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Is it possible that these are Bosnian soldiers, transferred from one of the Bosnian infantry regiments? Or can it be that Muslim soldiers from other Austrian units were also allowed to wear the fez together with the standard uniform? I could not find any answer to these questions in the written sources. I would appreciate any input for solving this mistery.

Thank you,
György

[a-h]

The disposition of bosnian-herzegowinian units during WW1:
- 15 Jun 1918 — VI/bhIR 1, VI/bhIR 2, VIII/bhIR3 — Orientkorps;
- 1 Jul 1918 — VI/bhIR 1, VI/bhIR 2, VIII/bhIR 3 — Orientkorps, Balkan Front;
- 15 Oct 1918 — VI/bhIR 1, VI/ bhIR 2, VIII/bhIR 3 — Orientkorps.

http://www.austrianphilately.com/dixnut/dn6g2.htm

[Tosun Saral]

Non Bosniak soldiers came to Turkey. They were send to Italian Front while the situation was getting worse.

[gyuresz]

In the meantime I have found some documentation about that there were at least a few Muslim Bosnian soldiers among the Austro-Hungarian artillerists in Palestine.

One of the eyewitnesses who was present when the Austrian artillerists marched into Jerusalem on 9 May 1916 notes that some of the soldiers were Bosnians, “among them also Mohammedans, who did not wear the usual military cap to their Austrian uniform, but a “tarbush”, a red fez.” (Gerda Sdun-Fallscheer: Jahre des Lebens, Stuttgart, 1985, p. 517)

One of the Austro-Hungarian artillerists buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem was also Bosnian. His name is Michael Radulowic (or Radulovics) and he died on 27 April 1917. About him we read in the register of the Franciscan parish church in Jerusalem: “miles Bosniensis”, ‘Bosnian soldier’.

[Tosun Saral]

There might be some Bosniaks in Kuk formationen in der Türkei as interpreters or dolmecher.

Two brothers in different armies. Two Bosnians. On the left A Bosnian muslim NCO, driver of KuK Transportation Company in Istanbul. On the right a Bosnian Turkish Heavy Artillery NCO .
Source: ETF Savaş tarihimiz

[Moca]

There are a few photos in this forum that may help your research:

http://forum.klix.ba/bosanski-vojnici-u ... 58773.html