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The Outbreak of
World War I.
The Mobilisation.
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The outbreak of WWI forced Denmark to enlist 50.000 men to stay neutral.
The 40.000 were designated to The New Fortress around Copenhagen.
It was not a mobilization, but at force only meant to claim the neutrality.
The mobilization order was given august 1st 1914.
In the period
1914-15 Denmark had the biggest army ever. 50.000 men were enlisted.
The fortress was made almost ready for battle, and some of the last armaments
were made.
Some of these works was only meant to be made in case of mobilization, but were
made
nevertheless.
Miles of barbed wire was established along the waterline and around the
caponieres at the southern defense line. Demolition of bridges and dams were prepared, and known
holes in
the defense lines, necessary for roads, railroads and bridges, were closed.
Numerous corps of volunteers reported in for duty in the defense line.
Paramilitary civilians
were designated to operate the machineguns. Volunteers who had trained in their
spare time.
Young engineer-students attended the complex searchlight and its generators |
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Volunteers (Akademisk Skyttekorps "The
Infantry Batallion") 1914
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Floodlight
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The
Artillery was attended by the 3. btn of the Fortress Artillery Regiment.
The Regiment was founded in 1867 on the basis of some regiments, that were
hasty founded in 1863 to attend the heavy artillery in Dannevirke, Dybbøl and
Fredericia.
The military life in the southern defense life was not attractive.
From 1914 there were stationed 1 sergeant with 10 infantrymen in every
caponiere. Here they slept, dined and lived - without the warm and dry rooms the
fortresses in the north
offered the soldiers.
Food and
coffee was brought in mobile kitchens on the road along the defense
line.
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Mobile Kitchens
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Ambulances
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7,5 cm Rapid firing steel-canon
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Gatling 8mm
10 barrelled Mitrallieuse
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Each caponiere were armed with a 75 mm. rapid-firing steel-canon and 2
machineguns.
The
gun above, was actually placed at the Bagsværd Fort
Behind the moads an the rampages the artillery were waiting for the enemy
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