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The Lounge => Historical Discussion => Topic started by: ClearlyInvsible on November 22, 2014, 08:52:11 pm
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Allies:
British Commonwealth
Akko: Extended family
French Republic and Colonies
ClearlyInvsible: Great Grandfather (Régiment de Marche de Spahis Marocains)
Russian Empire
Walko: Unknown ancestor (Artillery)
Kingdom of Italy
United States of America
Akko: Various members (Army, Navy)
Locust: Great Granduncles (Army)
Other
Central:
German Empire
Empire of Austria-Hungary
Turin Turambar: Great Grandfather (Major, regiment unknown)
Ottoman Empire
Other
Unfortunately ladies and gentlemen, the War to end all Wars didn't live up to it's namesake. A lot of people fought and died in World War I, for both sides.
My Great-Grandfather was a cavalryman in that war. He rode horses in Europe and Greece, lost a foot and was gassed. He didn't win any medals, he was just another soldier. But he had a story none the less, and I'm sure your ancestors have one themselves.
We should remember those who fought in that conflict that started 100 years ago this year. So please, post who in your family fought along with their regiment and battles if you can. I'll make a list of everyone.
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Me grandpappy fought in the old 18th Azerbaijani Regiment of Artillery.
God bles him
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Sort of unrelated but a somewhat distantly related relative fought in the British forces that put down the Easter Rising. I don't know if he was involved in any fighting on the continent.
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Had a lot of family fight in WWI. Some as American coastal artillery, some in the navy, and a lot in the army. A lot were fighting in France. I know I had some British family fighting as well, but not sure where.
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My great grandfather was a major in the k.u.k. Common Army.
I don't exactly know where he fought.
Members of my mother's family probably served in the Reichswehr.
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Probably, most likely the Russian Civil War though. Not anyone I can directly name though.
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My Grand Uncles fought in the US Army.
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My Grand Uncles fought in the US Army.
Would those be your great grand uncles?
One of my ancestors was an officer in a russian artillery regiment until 1917 where he and his family were stowaways on a cattle ship to England
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My Grand Uncles fought in the US Army.
Would those be your great grand uncles?
One of my ancestors was an officer in a russian artillery regiment until 1917 where he and his family were stowaways on a cattle ship to England
Oh right...
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Updated again
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My Great Grandfather (had kids late in life) fought in the US Army during the first world war. Due to his very common name and his early death in my grandma's life we don't know very much about his service. I'm glad to be on the few lucky ones who can still hear oral stories from the war from my grandmother. I really should write them down.
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Been a while since last post on this thread, but no matter.
My Great-Grandfather served in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry as a Machine-gunner before being wounded at the Somme and being sent home. My Great-Uncle served as a Serjeant in the West Yorkshire Regiment, and went MIA after he was caught in a depot explosion at Arras.
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My Great Grandfather served in the German combat engineer corps. Unfortunately I don't know his rank or unit.
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Great Grandfather
1) Russian Empire Army
2) British Commonwealth
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my dad
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my dad
Did he serve in the 18th Azerbaijani Arillery Regiment?
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2 great grandfathers, both forced to fight in the german army. Both deployed in Flanders where one of them fell.
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A few weeks ago I went to my family's old mountain house and I found a very old picture of a man wearing a World War 1 uniform and wielding a rifle, so I asked my uncle who it was. He told me that was my grand grandfather who fought for Francis Joseph in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and got called to arms in 1914. He got wounded and captured by Russian soldiers a few months later, but he managed to go back home in 1919 or 1920.
Then I remember asking my grandmother once, if her grandfather was called to arms in 1914 as well, and she told me that my other grand grandfather Attilio was called to arms in 1914, again fighting on the eastern front for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and came back in 1918 unharmed. Back in the days, this part of northern Italy where I currently live still belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and it was only after World War 1 that it got annexed by Italy, so no wonder they were loyal to the Kaiser Francis Joseph. I even recall finding a picture of Francis Joseph himself at my old mountain house :D
I think I could even go and ask my grandmother for more details about my grand grandfather, I'm sure she does know way more than what she's told me so far!
EDIT: I did some research, and it looks like they served in the Kaiserjäger 3. Regiment http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.u.k._Kaiserj%C3%A4ger
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A few weeks ago I went to my family's old mountain house and I found a very old picture of a man wearing a World War 1 uniform and wielding a rifle, so I asked my uncle who it was. He told me that was my grand grandfather who fought for Francis Joseph in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and got called to arms in 1914. He got wounded and captured by Russian soldiers a few months later, but he managed to go back home in 1919 or 1920.
Then I remember asking my grandmother once, if her grandfather was called to arms in 1914 as well, and she told me that my other grand grandfather Attilio was called to arms in 1914, again fighting on the eastern front for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and came back in 1918 unharmed. Back in the days, this part of northern Italy where I currently live still belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and it was only after World War 1 that it got annexed by Italy, so no wonder they were loyal to the Kaiser Francis Joseph. I even recall finding a picture of Francis Joseph himself at my old mountain house :D
I think I could even go and ask my grandmother for more details about my grand grandfather, I'm sure she does know way more than what she's told me so far!
EDIT: I did some research, and it looks like they served in the Kaiserjäger 3. Regiment http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.u.k._Kaiserj%C3%A4ger
Quite an awesome find. I remember digging into my family's pictures and finding various great uncles that fought in WWI. All of them fought in France from what I recall.
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Yeah my great grandfather and grandfathers were in the military. Im not sure if they saw action in WWI (they did in WWII and the ensuing Greek Civil War of 1947), but I do know that, as lawyers in the Army before the conflict, they were on the panel of judges of the military tribunals in the Imathia region in Northern Greece (that's where we come from).
So, in a sense, they were involved, but not fighting directly in combat.
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My great gand uncle fought in the Bulgarian front in ww1, i have a sculped artillery shell from him
My great grand father served in the Greco-Turkish war of 1919 (basicaly the war following the ww1 peace treaties), he lost his leg at Sakarya