Re: [Cz-L] Regiment 15

http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz5/miscellaneous/regiment15-1.jpg

 If we look at the RH group of soldiers we see dark complexions.
 Who are they ,from where ?
  Austria Hungary was an imperial power with many nations and creeds
  incorporated :
    Montenegrins,
     Bosnian,
     Serbs,
     Slovaks,
     Slovenian,
     Bohemians,
      Moravians,
      Rumanians,
      Ruthenians,
      Poles
      Jews.
   All loyal to the Emperor in Vienna.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RPukOfWMPJM/S-svDs6WgQI/AAAAAAAABro/xgOBViC60Fc/s1600/good-soldier-svejk.jpg

  "They've killed our Ferdinand" says Svejk's charwoman..

Hardy
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From: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; "'Hannelore Condiescu'"
<hcondiescu_at_gmail.com>; "'Czernowitz Genealogy and History'"
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Regiment 15

> My father (Oscar Ezra Wolf) was recruited at the end of 1917 (after he
> returned from the "flucht'). I don't know to what unit, but I know that
> his cousin (Alexander Srul Hebel) who was already serving for 2 years
> arranged for my father to join him on the Italian front where he served
> till the army there actually disintegrated at the end of the war and both
> cousins had to hitchhike all the way back to Czernowitz which was in the
> process of becoming Romania. As for "elderly" men serving I know that my
> maternal grandfather (Isidor Srul Ruhm) who lived in Suczawa and was born
> on 1870 joined a volunteer unit that was attached to the regular forces in
> the area.
> Yosef Eshet
>

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