Photo warriors of the State militia before the call to service, 1914

Cabinet-portrait. Judging by the costume (shirt, blouse, vest, jacket and pants, trousers) and the watch chain shown can be a craftsman, skilled workman (the bulk of factory workers chose to wear high boots), employees in any commercial establishment, not a rich merchant or contractor. Dating the can on the cap with a high crown, which came into Vogue before the First world war. Judging by the badge on the band and the militia cross on the crown, a character not previously been serving in the army (the so-called drawing lots). After the beginning of world war II, he was drafted into the State militia and is now awaiting the date of turnout to the Assembly point (the militia when the call was given three days to take the device home and commercial Affairs). It is also possible that in peacetime he served for hire on any state-owned defence enterprise, which, if you had a militia certificate, when announcing the mobilization remained in their jobs, but already in the status of the militia warriors. Fashionable peaked cap clearly bought with their own money to come to collect it, exactly the same as it did when you call in the army a good soldier Svejk. Such Patriotic enthusiasm had been very characteristic for the initial period of the war. Today photos with this story – a rarity.