Farkas

Hi Gents back to business tony

I promise not to post while drinking anymore..... ! Apologies. tony

If I’m honest it scares me to start. It’s an emotional issue and I have a ‘wall’ to get over... GreyC’s question set my heart racing. Your words made me well up. I’d love to know more about my Grandfather but if I research him I couldn’t stop there... I remember my Dad researching our family in the 90’s with limited results. Things have moved on since then and more information is out there now and if I don’t do it no-one else will because there are no little Farkas’s. I’m the last in line as they say. i’m adopted, my Dad was Jewish and the family tree he did is filled with ‘missing presumed dead’... arrested, camps etc its a daunting task... one day I hope. ********** Sorry for the heavy answer but I feel better for it! Fingers crossed for both of us I feel.... *********** To end on a lighter note! best wishes tony

Hi Gents IR83 in Podlipie, Poland. 10th October 1917.... plenty of Karl Truppen Kreuz.... tony

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Thanks GreyC... i thought I might have gone on a bit! Not wounded as far as i’m aware... tony

Hi Gents Hi Bayern, GreyC, IrishGunner (Alphabetical order!) I’m glad you asked! When I was a lad my Dad used to buy militaria at antique shops etc. I still do but as a random hoarder still... When I found eBay a few years ago I started collecting my pics... in particular these Austro Hungarian group shots. Reason was that anyone of them could have been (in theory!) my Grandfather. And if not then they were still someone else’s. I only had a few photos of him and they were from the 1950’s and 60’s. I had nothing of him any younger. I wouldnt recognise him if I saw him in one. i always knew he had fought in the Austro Hungarian army... and survived the war of course. My mum recalls, in her youth, when my dad introduced them, she asked him over dinner...”did you ever kill anyone?” He didn’t answer... The story my Dad told me goes that there was a box of photos that showed his war. He carried a camera throughout and many were graphic. Friend and foe dead included.... My Nan hated them but my Grandfather still had them when he died in 1968. Sadly before my Dad could claim them, she destroyed them. He said she burnt them immediately. He wasn’t happy! So fast forward- just two years ago I find an envelope at my mums with his ID card, the badge, half a dozen studio cards and the platoon photo shown above.... They had survived the purge. I guess being Rppc they were not in the box. Treasure indeed and precisely the things I collected already. I couldn’t believe it. I guess my Dad wisely decided to keep them safe from me. He probably had shown me them once upon a time but I can’t recall. So that’s the short version! i don’t need much encouragement to share his story. Lost but now found - and now it can’t be lost again thanks to this forum. Hope you like the photo. its absolutely my favourite! cheers all tony (Anthony George Farkas)

Great photo Chris ’Tragic’ in so many ways... I too see the influence of the Fairer Sex! Maybe his Mum said ‘do as you’re told’... or to continue the conversation with Girlfriend.... (Later that evening) him - but you promised her - and I meant it baby. But not tonight... it’ll be better if we wait until you get back him - but, but... what if I don’t get back? her - don’t say that him - well, whatever happens promise no-one else will ever see it.... her - I promise... and I’ll not let anyone see the flower photo either

Hello Chris is it possible they are both ‘one’? Armee Korps I over Regt 1 i don’t know if the combination existed but you may? Photo AK11 below (not mine!) tony

Hi Gents and hi GreyC.... Thank you, thats really cool... my family and friends think I’m mad collecting these things I can’t read but it’s so much fun when, as now, something clicks! GreyC, i has not ‘sussed’ it was signed as uncle Gyulu I had thought it was the senders first and last name. But was confused that at the top it has been pencilled with Gyulu Nagy Now - it makes sense! Cool.... Thanks again GreyC ——//-//-// while i’m here... feldpost home from someone in my favourite regiment! KuK Infanterie Regiment No.83 Hungarian so double trouble to read... And sadly nothing on the reverse. hope you like gents tony

Hi IrishGunner, GreyC... Thanks both for your comments.... it is a good one isn’t it, a little bit different to my usual ones, I was well chuffed when I found it. I’d enjoy seeing them Sir if you fancy starting a dedicated thread I’d enjoy contributing some of my own to it too... thanks again, appreciated as always gents tony

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Hi gents September 1907 June 1912 tony

Hi gents these all belong together... the first dated 1921, the last in the snow is 1927 I believe shoulder tabs on the next one look most like 23, certainly 2... tony

Hi gents sadly the front of this one is faded. Overcoats, rifles and entrenching tool are hung up in the background.... After adjusting it a bit..... I think the man on the left is on a field telephone tony

Hi gents tony ——///———- evening Bayern yes I see it now... I thought the Uhlan cap was one of the pickelhaube with an eagle on top.... thanks as always... tony

Hi Gents From 1912.... tony

Hi IrishGunner I forgot to thank you for your comments on the heavy gun pics so... thank you, it’s always appreciated... and, as you ‘gently’ reminded me, the mortar is a 30.5cm and not a 20.5cm as I had labelled it.... thanks again tony

Hi Bayern you know I readily jump to conclusions! I thought maybe the guy with his back to camera? And the one behind the ‘blurry’ guy? The headwear was the reason... tony

Hi Gents a patriotic pc so you may have seen it before but it’s a good ‘un... tony