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Hi Gents A few more addressed to Josef Klunes... tony

Thanks for the link Christian It makes me wonder as to the date of this... it seems the same traditions still hold strong. cheers tony

Agreed! Great pictures thanks. This mans trio caught my eye amongst all the bling... Am I mistaken (often am) or is he, in fact, wearing two 1908 Jubilee medals? One on the end on a civil ribbon and the one in the middle on a military ribbon? Personally I’ve not seen that before.... tony

While I’m here... tony

Hi Gents 15 August 1911 and December 1901 tony ps the photo is not clear even in the flesh - the tally is not readable sadly.....

Ooh...Bayern My friend, you know I need more than that! ~~~~ I will try... I will open with - perhaps... was the collar badge indicative of realm of service, and might be worn in any situation, formal or frontline or whenever.... whereas the cap badge, but in fact called a tactical badge, would be worn in the field, to inform comrades as to your purpose ? Ie: worn tactically? For purpose...? thanks as always...... tony

Hello Von Thronstahl That’s new to me... would you mind explaining that for me please? A tactical sign not cap badge? thanks tony

Brilliant! on so many levels 1812 Overture.... I love ‘photo-bombers’ as they are now known.... Yours has to be amongst the best! tony

Hi Gents first thanks all.... glad for all replies I do like ‘surprise-attack-group’.... and apologies Bayern because I didn’t represent your previous comments fully enough... I won’t paraphrase so casually again! ~~~~~ these few are the ‘odds’ of the group.(incl one artillery For IrishGunner) ~~~~~ tony

Hi Bayern and this one on the side of the cap, Hungarian I think? tony

Hi Gents a last couple from these tonight... i did promise no more drunken posts so it’s time to sign off! the first card is stamped: K.u.K Sanitats-Abteilung des Epidemiespitales the sender is there. On a previous post Bayern kindly pointed out, the relevance of a similar stamp, to the flu epidemic in Europe at the time. This card is dated August 1917 so it’s early. the addressee is the sender of the previous three above and it appears he too is currently in a hospital, feldpost #619 The second card is addressed to Josef Kunes and sent from K.K. FAR 203/3 tony

Hi Gents These 3 are stamped: K.u.K. Infanterie Regiment Nr. 28 3/XXVI Marschkompagnie tony

What were the odds on that? Considering our previous conversation about family... cool. and I started with those two because I thought you might like them. (More artillery to come) —/————— Hi gents these 5 all stamped: K.k Landsturm-Etappen-Battaillon Nr 489 Rppc from various places but locations crudely erased on some... tony

I’m interested too Von Thronstahl... is it the medals , the 3rd and 4th? or the collar style maybe? tony

Hi Gents tony

Hi gents i’ve got a group of about 30 all related in some way. Mainly addressed to ‘Joseph Kunes’. Faded pencil is hard enough to read but the kicker is they are in Hungarian... i’m going to post them all here over the next few days because they have a nice variety of stamps but because also i’d like them to be on the record so to speak. ~~~~ these two have the same sender the first date stamped December 9 1916 from #50 the second I can’t date but sent, I think, from #423 (maybe 123) ~~~ tony

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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Hi Gents Editing.... tony

Thanks both tony

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)