Central Powers soldiers remembrance Thread

[Frederich Barbarossa]

All who have relatives who fought in the central powers in world war 1 post here. My great great grandfather was a Greek Soldier from Kavala or maybe Byzantium, that was in the Ottoman army, and died of Diahrea along with 200,000 soldiers in Gallipoli. Gallipoli is known as one of the most horrific biological battles of world war 1. Around 200,000-300,000 alone became sick with diahrea, and other sicknesses because of corpses and no supplies.

[razor-]

My Great Grandfather was conscripted to the Imperial German Army, he was ethnically Danish, but lived in Sønderjylland which had become German in 1864 (it was returned in 1920). Luckily he was chosen to fight on the Eastern Front and not in the West where 6000 other Danes died.

[Marie Louise von Preussen]

Great grandfather was conscripted in the Austrian Army, died in 1914 at the onset of the war.

[bushbush]

war sucks.

[touchmaster]

You'd think there would be high survivability rate since you are in the trenches 90% of your time while on the front, not until your barbaric captain orders you to charge a ing MG nest. Enfilade fire cutting you down before you even get half way there.

[Crimson Scythe]

I have a number of relatives that fought for the Ottomans during WWI, mostly at Gallipoli and later the Syrian and Palestinian fronts. Most survived the war, but many died soon afterwards (either through the continuing violence, disease, or starvation) before they could return home, or during the Turkish War of Independence.

[Aru]

Most of my ancestors fought under the banner of Austria-Hungary.
I don't know of anyone being killed in that war.
One great-grandfather was captured in Galitia and apparently re-married in Russia.

[Kara Kolyo]

One of my great grandfathers first fought in the two Balkan wars in the ranks of The macedonian volunteer corps in the bulgarian army, since he was from the region of Drama. He joined the corps at the age of 16 and according to my grandmother the Berdan rifle with bayonet was taller than him During WW1 he fought on the Thessaloniki front and was captured sometime during 1917 or 1918.
The other great grandfather was an artillery man, also fought on the Thessaloniki front. His regiment was somewhere around or exactly at Dobro pole where the Entante breakthrough happened. He later joined the so called "soldier's" or "Vladaya" rebellion that was crushed outside Sofia.

[Frederich Barbarossa]

One of my great grandfathers first fought in the two Balkan wars in the ranks of The macedonian volunteer corps in the bulgarian army, since he was from the region of Drama. He joined the corps at the age of 16 and according to my grandmother the Berdan rifle with bayonet was taller than him During WW1 he fought on the Thessaloniki front and was captured sometime during 1917 or 1918.
The other great grandfather was an artillery man, also fought on the Thessaloniki front. His regiment was somewhere around or exactly at Dobro pole where the Entante breakthrough happened. He later joined the so called "soldier's" or "Vladaya" rebellion that was crushed outside Sofia.

Yes I think one of my relatives fought in the Thessaloniki front, because some of them were born in Kavala an Ethnic Greek town 80 km from Thessaloniki. Sad to fight your own country...

[Odovacar]

Great-grandfather served in the K.u.K army as pioneer.
His role was on armored trains because he worked in the railway company previously.

He fought in Serbia, and in North Italy. He was wounded once. Received the Karl's Truppenkreuz in 1915. Later he was awarded by memorial medals like the Silver Medal of Bravery ( Ezüst vitézségi medál)
After that he returned from his native Felvidék (a village, today Vranov nad Toplou) from where he escaped in order not to be called into the Chezslovakian Army.
In Hungary though he had to enter into the Red Army, and he fought till the hungarian Soviet fell apart.

My great grandfather from ww1.


RIP.
He brought home from Italy a pestle, which was made from a mortar's bullet.
Also he composed lyrics to the morning alarm trumpet "Awake, awake, oh dear soldier.."

[Ardruire Iacób]

I suppose my great-grandfather was technically a soldier of the Central Powers, given that the Provisional Government of the Republic proclaimed themselves allies of Germany (and had been importing weapons from them for years, the Germans had also intended on setting Irish POWs go if they joined an army that they had planned on sending to Ireland). He fought in the first batallion of the National Volunteers in Dublin, stationed in the General Post Office HQ, from 24th - 30th April 1916, against the British government in Ireland. He was arrested and sent to the prison camp in Frongoch, Wales. He was promptly released two years later, in 1918, and later joined the IRA.

[Monarchist]

We lost two great-great uncles in the First World War, though they fought on the Allied side. To have been part of a German family who had relatives that fought in WWI would be a great honor to me, however, and I salute the men of the Central Powers. They held up for a distinctively long time in the face of overwhelmingly superior numbers on the enemy side.

[Frederich Barbarossa]

We lost two great-great uncles in the First World War, though they fought on the Allied side. To have been part of a German family who had relatives that fought in WWI would be a great honor to me, however, and I salute the men of the Central Powers. They held up for a distinctively long time in the face of overwhelmingly superior numbers on the enemy side.

Thank you comrade

[husker9.2]

I dont know exactly how many of my family members fought in the Volga German battalions of the Russian army but i know many of them did. They didnt want too but they were forced to fight their brothers.

Here's to all of them! Let them never be forgotten!

[Ahlerich]

my grandmothers brother maneuvered in africa as a german infantrist. he survived it, i never met him though so i dont know many stories..

[Frederich Barbarossa]

:o Ahelrich I hope you mean ww1...

[Ahlerich]

:o Ahelrich I hope you mean ww1...

yep because in world war 2 we didnt have colonies anymore

why you think i cant read? germany had quite some action in africa in ww1 because they pretty much always were severely outnumbered and could only put up a fight due to very successful maneuverings. at least thats what he said, i am not a military man and dont know details..

worldwar 2 there were many more of my family involved. one of my uncles was flying the me109 and me262 the others didnt survive so i dont know much about them..

i only know that one of my other grandmas 3 brothers was a gambler and a funny dude ..she once told me about how hi manipulated dices.. not much of a story oh well she is gone too so too late to ask for more.

oh btw next time u insult me i ll take it personal. you know what that means? i will make fun of you and that you spelled friedrich barbarossa wrong

[Kara Kolyo]

Why is this communist ghost lurking all around VV? All the lefties should try living like me in Bulgaria or other post communist country, or even better move to North Korea to enjoy this BS.
For these discussions we have the mudpit!
And to get back on topic - the great grandfather that was at Dobro pole and participated in the soldiers rebellion - in 1923 took part in the instigated by the communists "September rebellion". He was given a Manlicher rifle with five bullets and ordered to guard the bridge to the near town by himself. When a police company appeared, he decided that was time to check his vineyard . He managed to survive the following repressive measures and resigned from the communist party after 1944 seeing what the actual communism was.

[Atterdag]

Off topic posts deleted.

At least try to stay on topic from now on, or this thread will have to go up to the big forums in the sky.