Translated using ChatGPT on 2/2/2015

Addressed to Miss Anna in Balice

"I. Sokolský prapor

Dear Anna,
I am writing to you from our station. We are well, and I hope the same for you. We have been marching a lot, but morale is high. Perhaps I will be able to visit soon. Please write back when you can.
With regards,
[Name unclear]"

Photo taken somewhere in Serbia during 1916

Notice the M91 with Austro-Hungarian sling swivel and stock with no escutcheons. Photo courtesy of SA-Kuva

Mänttä, Maintenance Training Center. Notice the rifles on the left have Austro-Hungarian sling swivels

Polvana. Notice the Austro-Hungarian sling swivel on the stock. Photo courtesy of SA-Kuva

Notice the M91 at the far left of the picture. M91 bayonets can also be see on the soldier's belts

Notice the soldier on the right has an Austro-Hungarian M91 with an early finger rest. Photo courtesy of SA-Kuva

Notice the soldier's M91 has the swivel going straight through the wood with no escutcheon. This indicates the stock was used by the Austro-Hungarian empire during WW1. Photo courtesy of SA-Kuva

Notice the soldier in the middle has an M91 with an Austro-Hungarian stock. The rear swivel is on the bottom of the stock, and there is no rear escutcheon. Photo courtesy of SA-Kuva

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The Minute Men of Montenegro. This group of Montenegrin soldiers, who returned from their jobs in the Colorado mines to help their motherland in the war, came to meet Lieut. Col. Robert E. Olds, American Red Cross Commissioner to Europe, on his recent tour of the Balkan countries. They are the best fighters in the Montenegrin army and go about armed to the teeth rifles, hand grenades, knives and pistols being a part of their equipment. After the armistice these men formed a "Minute Man" Company to resist any attempt of another country to gain control of Montenegro. They also volunteered to act as guards for Red Cross Relief supplies. Note the soldier in the rear, second from the right, has a M91 rifle on his back. These soldiers are likely from the coal mining region of Las Animas county (Southern Colorado)

Primolano (just north of Monte Grappa). Entrance to the roadblock cavern.

Russians working on cable car construction on the Obslauserriegel (Passo Ombretta) in the Italian Dolomites. Notice the Austro-Hungarian soldier, 3rd from the right, has an M91 rifle and a metal Mosin bayonet scabbard on his belt. Mosins even found their way to Italy during WW1

Station guard at the 2nd Infantry Division. 1917

Roadblock KERSCHOWEC against FLITSCH. Taken on July 4, 1916. Isonzo front

At the Russian front

Loaded for stray Austrians. The Comitage of Montenegro were the scourge of the invading Austrian forces. For two years they waged a relentless guerilla warfare on the enemy. This shows a group of the hillmen wearing uniforms and carrying equipment they captured. Many of them are now under treatment for old wounds at the American Red Cross Hospital in Montenegro - 1919

Located in Podgajci, Croatia

Notice the two M91 rifles with captured wire cutter attachments

Most likely in Vienna, notice the 1907 carbine on the bottom left of the cabinet

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This photograph features an M91 with an early pattern stock with no escutcheons

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