Felix vB

Yes, the internet is amazing sometimes! Regarding the previous questions: I have one picture of FvB with me, in uniform on his horse in 1915 (I will scan it once I find a moment). All the albums are back home in Germany, I will see if I can scan a few over christmas. There are also a few pre-war among them, with the old dark green and uniforms of that regiment. Regarding the biography, it is in german and I am not quite finished with it, but can post a pdf of it at a later stage. The mountain troops became sort of a family tradition, both his son and grandson (my father), served in the mountain troops at their time. Best, Felix

Hi there, I just stumbled upon this forum and this entry by accident. Felix von Bomhard is my great grandfather, we even share the same name. He was still alive when I was born and I can even vaguely remember him. Adolf von Bomhard is a related, the exact relation escapes my memory at the moment, but I can find out. From the age I guess either a brother or close cousin. They both lived in the same area in Bavaria. Theodor von Bomhard was his father, I guess old age lies in the family! I have the handwritten memoires of Theodor which are quite fascinating to read, as they cover his whole military and private life from the Austro-German wars over 1870/71 to the first and second WW. I was starting to compile that in Latin characters, but that will still take a while… Was written in Sütterlin… I guess it was a typo, when you wrote far from the battlefield of WWI, far from WWII, but in the frist he was in the middle of the campaign. I have a dozen photo albums in my posession, covering his deployments in WWI. Mostly Balkans and Romania. The Chevauleger where later transformed into Mountain troops, which he was part of then. Hope that helps! Any question on my family, I will do my best to answer.