Peter Orincsay Posted March 2, 2010 Posted March 2, 2010 Not long ago, the photo album of Oszkár Simkó came into my collection of Austro-Hungarian militaria. The album contains hundreds of interesting and detailed, most likely self-made photographs from this young officer. I will scan and digitally restore the photographs one by one and post some of the most interesting ones here. Unfortunately I don´t know anything about this officer more then his name. I would be most thankful for any comments that can help me to find out more about him, or details in the photos. Enjoy the photographs! Péter
Peter Orincsay Posted March 2, 2010 Author Posted March 2, 2010 Page one. The text in Hungarian says; Volunteer school in Klosterneuburg, 1914 August - 1915 January. (Town north of Vienna along the Danube)
Peter Orincsay Posted March 3, 2010 Author Posted March 3, 2010 Group-photograph, Oszkár Simkó in the middle row.
Peter Orincsay Posted March 3, 2010 Author Posted March 3, 2010 Enlarged detail of Oszkár from the group-photo.
Peter Orincsay Posted March 3, 2010 Author Posted March 3, 2010 (edited) Page 2 and 3. The text on page 3 says; Officers school in Hainburg. (Hainburg an der Donau, town along the Danube close to the border to Slovakia) Edited March 3, 2010 by Peter Orincsay
Peter Orincsay Posted March 3, 2010 Author Posted March 3, 2010 Postcard of the military-academy of Hainburg a.D. The academy is situated below the castle on the hill.
Peter Orincsay Posted March 7, 2010 Author Posted March 7, 2010 (edited) Przemysl (a city in south-east Poland, then front-line against the Russians) 1915 June - July Edited March 7, 2010 by Peter Orincsay
peter monahan Posted March 7, 2010 Posted March 7, 2010 Fabulous! Are we guessing that Oscar was an Engineer?
Peter Orincsay Posted March 15, 2010 Author Posted March 15, 2010 Next in the photo-album, Oszkar went to Semendria. (Today's Smederevo in Serbia). 44°40′N 20°56′E
Peter Orincsay Posted March 15, 2010 Author Posted March 15, 2010 Photos of amazing ship's bridges over the Danube.
Peter Orincsay Posted March 15, 2010 Author Posted March 15, 2010 A closer detail of the ship-bridge..
Peter Orincsay Posted March 15, 2010 Author Posted March 15, 2010 (edited) A panoramic view over the Semendria fortress. It's amazing history can be read here: Google-Earth fan's can look at it here: 44° 40′ 7″ N, 20° 55′ 45″ E Edited March 15, 2010 by Peter Orincsay
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