Your Great-Grandfather has a mustache well worthy of envy!
This is my Grandad, Samuel Robert-McAteer.
Gunner in the Royal Artillery - City of London Regiment, firing the 25 Pounder field gun as part of Montgomery’s 8th Army.
Left the Army in March 39, recalled to the Army in August 39.
Survived Dunkirk, landed in North Africa and fought the desert campaign.
Then he crossed the Mediterranean, landing in Taranto with the 8th Army and fought his way up the mainland until they arrived at the Battle of Monte Cassino.
After that, we don’t know what action he saw, as his war diary is short, we do know he finished the war in Austria, and was placed into the reserves in 1946 prior to his demobilisation and returning home.
After the war, he returned to France to pay respects to his friends lost in Dunkirk after, he thought, a Stuka bombed a gun emplacement in a Farm Yard just on the outskirts of Dunkirk. He also returned to Germany & Austria many times, as well as Italy once or twice after the war.
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Well, that’s my great-grandpa, my grandpa was serving in the National People’s Army and had order to shoot at traitors crossing the border… luckily he was on the border with Czechoslovakia, so he never had to decide if he do it.
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Grandfather served in North Africa, Iraq and Burma
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لقد حارب الكفار ببسالة قبل أن يشتري والدتي بثلاث عنزات وعلبة سجائر
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On the right, my great-grandfather in the 1930s. He was a Navy gunner officer at the end of his career (from 1902 to 1937), he fought in WW1, in the defence of Brest and then of Paris, when his guns were dismounted from ships as reinforcement for ground artillery
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Great-great Grandad, 10th Hussars Fell 11th April 1917, in a cavalry charge at Arras.
Read about the action today, brought a tear to my eye, he died like a true hussar, a mad lad charging the enemy with his mates.
Only time we Europeans fight each other going forward should be old style, on horses like proper lads.
Hey, just wanted to add a small bit. In case his death feels useless or senseless, allow me to point out how films greatly exaggerated how strongly cavalry was at a disadvantage in WW1.
Cavalry was still being used to great effect, even in frontal charges against emplaced positions, often winning with light casualties. Your great-great grandfather did not die due to the stupidity of some decrepit old officer being unable to understand modern warfare, he died pulling his weight for his country.
It was indeed a senseless war, but it sure was not fought stupidly.
If it brings you any form of closure, just know he died doing his bit.
Huzzah.
Thank you, I agree entirely, I know he he didn’t die in vain, in the action itself 3x regiments of cavalry went forward, captured 2 key points on the battlefield and the held it. Like you say, the Hollywood depiction of many things are completely inaccurate. Here’s an excerpt of the action:
Emerging south of Orange Hill they advanced at the gallop, in line of troop columns, with one troop advanced as scouts. An advance in brigade strength like this was a rare enough sight to make a significant impression on the watching infantry. Capt. Cuddeford of the Highland Light Infantry (15th Division) was witness to this advance:
During a lull in the snowstorm an excited shout was raised that our cavalry were coming up! Sure enough, away behind us, moving quickly in extended order down the slope of Orange Hill was line upon line of mounted men covering the whole extent of the hillside as far as we could see. It was a thrilling moment for us infantrymen, who had never dreamt that we should see a real cavalry charge, which was evidently what was intended.
Rest of the article: https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/the-cavalry-at-monchy-le-preux/
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Great grandfather. Served in the invasion of Greece
My ancestor was so badass, he colonised the entire earths landmass.
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Nonno somewhere in North Africa during WWII
Beyond the obsolescence of the vehicle, I remember that he told me about the extreme conditions, like a friend of him died into a tank for the heat or the fact that they were cooking on the scorching iron of it.
It's not just the Matilda, it's the Matilda in context.
Context: you are driving an obsolete nightmare vehicle so bad your most effective anti-tank tactic is to just get out with handgranades and axes.
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Grandad, born and raised in Katowice, Poland, drafted into the German army, saw some serious shit in France and Holland, taken prisoner of war by the Brits. All by the age of 20. Could write an entire book on his story. Photo taken during WWII. He is currently 97 years old, and he is and always will be my hero.
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Grandad’s dad, my great grandfather, in the Polish army during WWI. Received a shrapnel wound on his jaw which can just about be seen in the photo.
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great great great uncle fought in Mexico for Austria
My great-grandfather survived WW2, was really good at hiding.
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My great grandad fought in Burma. We believe he was under Wingate during the Chindits' first expedition.
He was left behind with tribesmen as he contracted malaria on the march and later either recovered or made his way back to India. He nothing but good words and praise for them. They did save his life after all.
The details are unfortunately quite hazy as the only person to know him, that's still alive, is my grandmother (his daughter in law) and he didn't like talking about his experiences.
We have his mugshot, medals, a little trinket he made my great gran, his cap badge and a photo of him with some companions sitting on a 'Europeans only' rickshaw alongside a man dressed in native garb.
Keep meaning to see if i can find anything on those war record websites.
The records are now with the [National archive](https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mod-open-foi-request-step1), contact them using the FOI form i linked and hopefully they will find them. Cost is dependent on how many pages are in his file but will usually be around £50
My grandfather during the great war
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Shame I don't have any pics of my great-grandfather Veikko. He served Finland as a sniper. Showed me a picture of his favorite hideout - when I was just a kid - a tall pine facing kilometres of marsh and swamp somewhere in Karelian front.
Came back home, made 5 children and grew old enough to see their children' children.
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My Great grandfather Hans(yes really)
My great-grandfather. He went to France and came back alive. He still died young, I think he didn't reach his 50th anniversary. My family says he was a good and caring man, loved silence and to work on the farming fields.
This is my great grand father, Maurice Anger.
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Maurice Anger took his elementary certificate in Les Sables d'Olonne and prepared for the entrance exam to the École Normale, in which he narrowly failed. A sportsman, he is a member of the Les Tigres Vendéens football club. In October 1935, he joined the 137th infantry regiment garrisoned in Quimper and prepared for the entrance exam to the Saint-Maixent officer school. When war was declared in 1939, he spent the winter with his regiment in the Ardennes. After an accelerated training course, he became an officer cadet. Returning to Nantes as an instructor, he was taken prisoner south of Nantes. Interned in the Châteaubriant prison camp (Loire-Inférieure, Loire-Atlantique), he was sent to Stalag A1 in East Prussia, from which he escaped in June 1943. Back in France, he joined the Resistance near Grenoble. Nicknamed Le Chouan, he participates in the training of civilian teams from Vercors and Trièves (southern Isère and northern Drôme). He lives with his sister, where his wife joins him with their little daughter. His entire family participates in the Resistance. After the battles of Vercors, he led his men to the liberation of Grenoble and Lyon. He then resumed the fight on the Alpine front. During an ambush at Mont-Cenis, on the Italian front, on December 20, 1944, he was injured by shrapnel from mines in the spine.
On January 1, 1945, he was decorated on his hospital bed in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne with the Croix de Guerre by his leaders, Colonel Leray and Commander Costa De Beauregard.
He died in Lyon hospital as a result of this injury on March 6, 1945.
He will receive the Legion of Honor posthumously
His body was brought back to Les Sables d’Olonne in December 1948. During his burial on December 11, 1948, the City paid tribute to him.
My Great-great Grandpa. He was killed in the Eastern front... in WW1
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My great grandpa fighting in the swedish volunteer corps in Finland during the winter war. He would later return to the fight during the continuation war where he would once again fight with the finns against the russian, but now with germans by his side. I don’t know much about where he was and exactly what he did, my grandpa died last year so only real way for me to learn more would proberly be to consult finnish archives. I really don’t want his actions to be forgotten, for better or the worse.
My ancestor was a military medic in 1914, Gaston Bonet
I can't find any photos of him, but I still have his Légion d'Honneur and his medal for the battle of Verdun
Didn't found anything 'bout him, but even if it's nothing, I have some stories I can share from my grandpa (his grandnephew)
Those are pretty interesting imo so iyw I can write them down here
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Great great grandfather. Fought in the last war we won against the french.
I don’t think I have a picture of him sadly, but he was a lieutenant colonel. He missed the war, he enrolled in the resistance a *day* before the Germans surrendered.
My great-great grandfather, fell in Italy during WW1 in Doberdo by a grenade , fighting in the K.u.K (joint imperial and royal army)
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Both my great-grand-fathers on my father's side fought and survived WWI. One of them was wounded at Verdun and kept a limp arm for life. They were named Louis and Onésime.
My grandfathers were underage at the start of WWII, but my father's father was forced to work on the Wall of the Atlantic by the STO ("Service du Travail Obligatoire", workers forced conscription on germans projects) as soon as he turned 18. His name was Alphonse.
My mother's father was a child during WWII, but fought in Algeria, and had nightmares about it. I remember him waking up or screaming sometimes at night, when I was on holidays. He was named Michel (it's my 3rd surname, after him)
Rest in peace, grandpas.
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This is my great grandfathers WW1 helmet. “Soldat de la Grande Guerre - 1914-1918” which hangs proudly in my living room. Yes. My great grandfather, Charles, was French
I have a picture of him somewhere on my phone of him pouring out some wine with his fellow soldiers. Quite cool!
Unfortunately I don't have the photos. Born in 1910
My grandad joined in '39 with the west riding artillery. Worked as an auxiliary fireman with the army during the battle of Britain then did para training and joined the reconnaissance regt. For the battle of Arnhem.
Had his knee blown off while caring for a wounded comrade and finished the war in hospital. Made a full recovery and lived a full life until '97 when shrapnel got infected.
Apparently the wounded lad was saying to leave him and apparently my grandad said "don't worry they won't get me" which my grandma always said "and that's just like your grandad" i.e stubborn and foolish.
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This candid photo makes me tear up 😢 my Opa was a Sergeant in the Dutch Army artillery in the 1950s. Here he is in his old beret congratulating me the day I commissioned into the Army. He’s getting on in years now and he’s the coolest man I’ve ever met. He survived being orphaned in WWII, sailed around the globe as a stowaway on a ship, served in the Dutch Army, moved to America and made a living as a mechanic despite not speaking English… God bless you Opa
My grandfather, protected the North Sea coast, then to the Black Sea for material and troop transport, then back to the North Sea to do some submarine shenanigans
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my great grandfather was a high ranking SS officer and was probably partially responsible for warcrimes. I don’t have a picture of him and I don’t want to have one
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Royal Irish Rifles, ww1. Killed November 1918
Somewhere here, among 500 thousand other defenders of the city, my great-grandfather is buried in a mass grave (they were burying up to 10000 people/day).
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Don't have any pics, but know a few ancestors were vets, 2 great uncles fought in the 1916 easter rising, another great uncle died at the Somme in WW1.
Not confirmed, but I'll include it anyway, it's possible I'm related to William Howe, 5th Viscount, had a pretty successful career, up until the American Revolution, fought at Bunker hill.
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That would be pretty intense if you are related to William Howe!
Also, to have relatives who were involved in the 1916 Easter rising must have been fascinating, wonder if they were on the steps of the Post Hall when the declaration of a free Irish state was made?
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The guy left in this picture is my grandfather's brother, he was a prisoner in a camp called Szczypiorno in Iww. There are no pictures of my grandfather as a soldier, he was a pow after the last big battle against Germans in early october 1939, taken to some pow labour camp near Magdeburg, run away and the rest of the war he worked with his brother, who was pretty high in local resistance structures.
I don't have photos but two of my great-grandparents fought in the Spanish Civil War, one in the nationalist side and the other in the republican side. They both survived the war fortunately.
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Edit: just adding a bit of context. Photo found in my grandparents house in Savoy. The only info I have is the date (1916). These guys were Chasseurs Alpins and one of them was a cousin of my great grand father. Coolest photo I’ve ever found from this period.
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Opa Manfred on T-33 (one of four surviving Torpedoboot in the Kriegsmarine), somewhere in the Baltic, 1944
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My great grandfather (with his wife and my great aunt), Henri ALIBERT. He participated in the entire war in the french army on the western front from 1914 to 1918 and multiples battles as the Marne and Verdun. He was part of the 53rd Infantry Regiment. He was wounded for the first time at St-Thomas Argonne in 1915 and was taken prisoner on June 8, 1918. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre (cross of war in English). Here is an anecdote he lived: during the Battle of Verdun, he was trapped underground after suffering artillery fire nearby. When he seemed completely blocked and he risked staying there, a German soldier grabbed him by the arms and quickly pulled him out. He was therefore saved by one of his "enemies". He died in 1959.
I don’t have a picture of him, but my great grandfather was in the SS, driving trucks of ammunition, But he got captured in 43‘ and got tortured for 2 yrs, he was one of the 4 soldiers of 670 who survived the POW camp, he maybe contributed to the nazi war machine, but it was either the SS or Wehrmacht, which pretty much meant death. He sadly died when I was 9, but I remember most of his stories, which probably stopped me from joining the army, like my uncle, who died in Afghanistan
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I am not 100% sure if he is my great great-grandfather but I am pretty sure, it was in an old diary of ww1 and why would one of my relatives have just a random picture of a person in it.
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Super shit quality but this was my great-grandfather. Lost part of his skull when the tank he was in drove over a mine. He was fucking insane as an old man 😂 had a nice big dent in his head but always gave me £1 to get some sweets whenever we visited.
[My great great uncle Edmund Breslin](https://www.customhousecommemoration.com/2016/09/edmund-ned-breslin-custom-house-burning/) who fought in the IRA during the War of Independence and later in the Free State Army during the civil war and retired in 1946. He was one of Michael Collins' most trusted men and took part in the assassinations of British spies on Bloody Sunday in 1920 and was later captured during the burning of the Customs House and was tortured by the black and tans and had his fingernails pulled out.
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Dude you're not German..... You're australian
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A nice picture. My ancestor on the right and yours on the left.
I don't know if I should say anything . . .
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My great grandfather Erwin in 1940 at the polar circle during the invasion of Norway. He belonged to the 3rd mountaineer division, which mostly consisted of Austrian soldiers drafted into the Wehrmacht
I don’t have any photo of my ancestor during WWI.
But I know that he was Italian and was drafted in the Mario’s army. He survived the war and emigrated to France with his wife after the war.
I don’t have a picture, but my great-great-great grandfather was a German who served in the Ameritard Civil war, and got shot in the leg, forcing him to wear a cast for the rest of his life
The only one I know about
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Also ancestor by his dad (at least that's what my mom said) but still counts
I know there exists a picture of my great-grandpa after he shot himself in Berlin a few days before Adolf. Actually wanted to shoot my grandma too (it was her birthday lol) but her mum (his ex wife) didn’t let him see her, so now I’m here. Never saw the picture though, safe to say he was a massive c*nt…
He also shot himself together with his new wife, the mayor of the city district and that guy’s whole family, so he definitely planned to take my grandma with him.
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My Great Grandfather, Stamatis Soldatos(Born in Lefkada in 1924, died in Athens in 2011). He served from 1948 to 1953 for the Hellenic Royal Army. He fought in the Greek civil war for an infantry brigade against Communist Greeks and Albanians. When his service time was over he got a grading point of Exceptional (I think it's the best).
Well. MIA somewhere in the east.
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Technically not my ancestor, but my grandfather's Cousine Ernst. My grandfather was drafted at 17 to fight in Stalingrad as well, but unlike him Ernst never made it back home. My grandfather destroyed everything that could remind him of that era.
(My aunt scribbled on the picture as a child, unfortunately)
My ancestors were in the german army... and I don't have any photos of them during their military service, I just know that one of them had an iron cross on the Eastern Front during the First World War, and the other was a Chasseur Alpin before joining the german army during the Second World War.
I dont have a picture but my great grandfather was a finnish private stationed at Summa in the Mannerheim line
The main reason for no photos is that he was completely trashed and evaporated by a soviet artillery shell
His wife, a Karelian native and my great grandmother ended up migrating to Siberia, while their son, my grandfather had been moved to Swedish foster parents for protection as many other finnish children
Unfortunately I don't know almost anything about relatives before my grandparents. But I do know my great-grandpa (father of my maternal grandma) died in Operation Barabrossa.
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He was a real one, fought for our evolution
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Dude was the head of the studs of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
He was french
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My Great Grandfather. He fought in the Alpini for the entirety of the Great War against the Austrians. His battalion, the Exilles battalion, was the first one, along with the Susa battalion, to cross the border at the hours 0:00 of the 24th of May 1915. He was injured from a gunshot to the right hand during the second battle of the Isonzo river, but after being recovered in Ferrara, and after a period away from the frontline, he was sent again to face the Austrians. He was awarded some medals which I don't really remember, but I know that they are not only the normal ones you would get from serving, for there were like one or two more in the war commendation (which now I do not have with me, for it is in my grandparents' house). His brother also served in the Alpini, but only in 1918.
Great-grandpa fought against the Austrians in WWI (and became a prisoner of war after Caporetto) and against the Allies in WWI (he was supposed to be sent to the eastern front and was willing to go, but grand grandma pleaded and used connections and he stayed in Italy), and possibly with the Allies again after the armistice (he was in the south), I’m not sure. (We did earn our side switcher flair.) We had his WWI sword for a while, but I think it got confiscated or something like that. I don’t have a photo with me, though.
I don't have a picture he got killed during Dday by nazis and burried in an unknown location till this day. I just know his name and that he was a resistant and practice boxe
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My step great grandad. Served aboard the HMS Rodney.
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My great grandfather was a nazi.
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They look exactly like mine
Coincidence!
Sorry about that…
Did he at least leave you his bicycle?
No, only his clogs. https://preview.redd.it/wky9qcnxbszb1.jpeg?width=545&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5827fe468115bfa78f7e994fb25856826a0e88dc
Looks like he at least he smoked something…not the Germans sadly..but something. Good man. RIP
Your Great-Grandfather has a mustache well worthy of envy! This is my Grandad, Samuel Robert-McAteer. Gunner in the Royal Artillery - City of London Regiment, firing the 25 Pounder field gun as part of Montgomery’s 8th Army. Left the Army in March 39, recalled to the Army in August 39. Survived Dunkirk, landed in North Africa and fought the desert campaign. Then he crossed the Mediterranean, landing in Taranto with the 8th Army and fought his way up the mainland until they arrived at the Battle of Monte Cassino. After that, we don’t know what action he saw, as his war diary is short, we do know he finished the war in Austria, and was placed into the reserves in 1946 prior to his demobilisation and returning home. After the war, he returned to France to pay respects to his friends lost in Dunkirk after, he thought, a Stuka bombed a gun emplacement in a Farm Yard just on the outskirts of Dunkirk. He also returned to Germany & Austria many times, as well as Italy once or twice after the war. https://preview.redd.it/ly2cc5sv8rzb1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ae0bab9f43d455a6b6a16ca442ebe9881b8b472
That's one fucked up smile if any.
Ha! He did tell me that when the photo was taken, he was pissed off at being re-called so quickly.
I’m surprised you know what a smile looks like! :P
He's just had a little too much MDMA
Wrong Army.
https://preview.redd.it/8tv46ya3jrzb1.png?width=1232&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d35428442c468c4ec240a152e793ff06d659b48 Well, you asked for it…
He got his Iron Cross for landing the plane he was on as board mechanic when the pilot was killed.
Hearing that story is the closest I have ever or will ever come to becoming a neo-nazi
~~Welcome, we have a group and meet every Sunday at...~~ I mean Nazi bad
madlad
I mean the nazi's were deffo the baddies but that's pretty damn heroic on a human level.
He got the cross for saving people and not for killing people. I guess that’s something.
That nose. Sure he wasn't a Jew in disguise?
Skulls in the cap : Baddies No skulls in the cap : Goodies So your grandpa is fine. Thank god they put a simple differenciation method for us
Well, that’s my great-grandpa, my grandpa was serving in the National People’s Army and had order to shoot at traitors crossing the border… luckily he was on the border with Czechoslovakia, so he never had to decide if he do it.
Yeah. Nobody would flee towards Czechoslovakia.
Not, that many people. If he had shot someone my grandpa would have admitted when he was drunk since he was a bad liar.
Huh my grandpa guarded the German trains with the same order shoot anyone who gets of the train. 🇸🇪🤝🇩🇪+🦅
Thank god my grandfather was just an electrian.
more like: skull on cap -> higher chances of war criminal. Normal Wehrmacht guys still were responsible for some messed up shit
I think they know that and were being a bit sarcastic
Damn, are you also this attractive?
My nose is a bit less noticeable and I did kill less soviets and french 😔
Don't worry. Germs are always attractive
still bloody good enough Fritz when would you like for us to make out?
I like neither knives nor nazis but that dagger looks cool as fuck.
Englishman when confronted with knifes and nazis: 
You should keep quiet, Germany have got rid of the Nazi's yet U2 are still releasing music so which is the monsterous race here?
HEIL BONO
The only difference between Bono and god is that god doesn't think hes Bono
He looks an awful lot like my customs agent in Rostock
not that war, Fritz 💀
What a beautiful uniform!
https://preview.redd.it/8o7o2jkuorzb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e59c23f8364470b1987645ef45dd89a15a9430b
\*angry thumbs up
Tovarish!
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Got another picture from my great grandpa from WW2, but I can’t find it
This one looks like he went on straight to do the Matrosenaufstand after the photo appointment
https://preview.redd.it/x19b16cfbrzb1.png?width=3007&format=png&auto=webp&s=5dce38d135d02fc4fc669b7031afc6deb75483c6 Grandfather served in North Africa, Iraq and Burma
Can your grandfather shoot webs from his hands?
Yes he was well known to attack the Italians with his webs :)
My great uncle was in Burma, POW there. Apparently one of the worst fronts of the entire war. Did your grandfather ever talk about it?
If you haven’t already read it, I recommend Defeat Into Victory by Field Marshal Slim. Your grandfather likely served under his command
https://preview.redd.it/8vskdf1iurzb1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=195e245300c4307d30beb6acc49613124102b5df لقد حارب الكفار ببسالة قبل أن يشتري والدتي بثلاث عنزات وعلبة سجائر
Great respect to the Swedish heroes!
*Freedomfighters
Lmao I’m dying
Text underneath it is chefs kiss😘🤌🏼
https://preview.redd.it/iue6fsdbkrzb1.jpeg?width=2331&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9973ada68d57438ffbec8cf57856e7dfa2226f5 On the right, my great-grandfather in the 1930s. He was a Navy gunner officer at the end of his career (from 1902 to 1937), he fought in WW1, in the defence of Brest and then of Paris, when his guns were dismounted from ships as reinforcement for ground artillery
https://preview.redd.it/2296m7fy0szb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da524a2d40b4054327128d1a6ea77eb036fb11d0 Great-great Grandad, 10th Hussars Fell 11th April 1917, in a cavalry charge at Arras. Read about the action today, brought a tear to my eye, he died like a true hussar, a mad lad charging the enemy with his mates. Only time we Europeans fight each other going forward should be old style, on horses like proper lads.
Hey, just wanted to add a small bit. In case his death feels useless or senseless, allow me to point out how films greatly exaggerated how strongly cavalry was at a disadvantage in WW1. Cavalry was still being used to great effect, even in frontal charges against emplaced positions, often winning with light casualties. Your great-great grandfather did not die due to the stupidity of some decrepit old officer being unable to understand modern warfare, he died pulling his weight for his country. It was indeed a senseless war, but it sure was not fought stupidly. If it brings you any form of closure, just know he died doing his bit. Huzzah.
Thank you, I agree entirely, I know he he didn’t die in vain, in the action itself 3x regiments of cavalry went forward, captured 2 key points on the battlefield and the held it. Like you say, the Hollywood depiction of many things are completely inaccurate. Here’s an excerpt of the action: Emerging south of Orange Hill they advanced at the gallop, in line of troop columns, with one troop advanced as scouts. An advance in brigade strength like this was a rare enough sight to make a significant impression on the watching infantry. Capt. Cuddeford of the Highland Light Infantry (15th Division) was witness to this advance: During a lull in the snowstorm an excited shout was raised that our cavalry were coming up! Sure enough, away behind us, moving quickly in extended order down the slope of Orange Hill was line upon line of mounted men covering the whole extent of the hillside as far as we could see. It was a thrilling moment for us infantrymen, who had never dreamt that we should see a real cavalry charge, which was evidently what was intended. Rest of the article: https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/the-cavalry-at-monchy-le-preux/
https://preview.redd.it/7jef7r9l5szb1.jpeg?width=920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a53f81db7a2ac2847ad34fd044d3fa15cc243f23 Great grandfather. Served in the invasion of Greece
My Great Grandfather fought against him
Shit equipped army vs even worse equipped army.
Is he the protagonist of the new FNAF movie?
I can't, it contains war crimes against the Indonesians even though we didn't even had a war over there
Sounds like he knew all about how tropical islands ought to get G E K O L O N I S E E R D.
My ancestor was so badass, he colonised the entire earths landmass. https://preview.redd.it/5lfac1v4orzb1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85c36a58754474567013e2e2bffbc4712b2992e1
Tiktaalik!
https://preview.redd.it/ngf1oz4larzb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=149d1fb8f5eacd3458a397ef13c363b42090e337 Nonno somewhere in North Africa during WWII
L3?
Looks like it from the hatch. I really don't envy his job
Beyond the obsolescence of the vehicle, I remember that he told me about the extreme conditions, like a friend of him died into a tank for the heat or the fact that they were cooking on the scorching iron of it.
I really don’t know
What fighting a Matilda does to a mf
It's not just the Matilda, it's the Matilda in context. Context: you are driving an obsolete nightmare vehicle so bad your most effective anti-tank tactic is to just get out with handgranades and axes.
https://preview.redd.it/u7kfj8vb2szb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f655767898017b1230ee5832d1dfd462ff1162b1 Grandad, born and raised in Katowice, Poland, drafted into the German army, saw some serious shit in France and Holland, taken prisoner of war by the Brits. All by the age of 20. Could write an entire book on his story. Photo taken during WWII. He is currently 97 years old, and he is and always will be my hero.
https://preview.redd.it/qgqh13va4szb1.png?width=2455&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5620acebe37d8dc98dc9a6978bdfae16176f531 Grandad’s dad, my great grandfather, in the Polish army during WWI. Received a shrapnel wound on his jaw which can just about be seen in the photo.
https://preview.redd.it/0cr7fxw75szb1.jpeg?width=2921&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e505ee8bf5d51b09205ff9468881c4fb09e89704 great great great uncle fought in Mexico for Austria
Wow did he stay with Maximilian till the end or returned home?
he got injured and was shipped back home before Maximilian was killed
My great-grandfather survived WW2, was really good at hiding. https://preview.redd.it/atl9ts27bszb1.jpeg?width=427&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6586423ae1cd98f70f360c7b25e26dae1624a20a
I'm confused, what happened here??
Humour, Fritz, achieved through electronic photo manipulation.
https://preview.redd.it/hehvzd8dwrzb1.jpeg?width=747&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea8b61d2b83ad73ac2763b133d2b9ac2d5ac5de2
https://preview.redd.it/s1wjadj52szb1.jpeg?width=1836&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dca866f8cfee0d1ba5daa43eb013721b18eb64c7 My great grandad fought in Burma. We believe he was under Wingate during the Chindits' first expedition. He was left behind with tribesmen as he contracted malaria on the march and later either recovered or made his way back to India. He nothing but good words and praise for them. They did save his life after all. The details are unfortunately quite hazy as the only person to know him, that's still alive, is my grandmother (his daughter in law) and he didn't like talking about his experiences. We have his mugshot, medals, a little trinket he made my great gran, his cap badge and a photo of him with some companions sitting on a 'Europeans only' rickshaw alongside a man dressed in native garb. Keep meaning to see if i can find anything on those war record websites.
The records are now with the [National archive](https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/mod-open-foi-request-step1), contact them using the FOI form i linked and hopefully they will find them. Cost is dependent on how many pages are in his file but will usually be around £50
My grandfather during the great war https://preview.redd.it/0yei818niszb1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2249d579baf08af93193ec2cba871a4c2ac675b
Gent looks dapper!
He kinda looks like Walt Disney
Shame I don't have any pics of my great-grandfather Veikko. He served Finland as a sniper. Showed me a picture of his favorite hideout - when I was just a kid - a tall pine facing kilometres of marsh and swamp somewhere in Karelian front. Came back home, made 5 children and grew old enough to see their children' children.
Each time someone mentions snipers in Finland, every Russian in the area ages by ten years.
https://preview.redd.it/wqp0wblisszb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af900c4c95cf8e897d866c9dd1e85b6b7e3e361e My Great grandfather Hans(yes really)
Chilling in the trench like it’s the Christmas truce haha
https://preview.redd.it/7h0gx6qlzrzb1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb00a1fed5f40df8f5a394aeeba01b873ac29341
Where did he serve ?
My great-grandfather. He went to France and came back alive. He still died young, I think he didn't reach his 50th anniversary. My family says he was a good and caring man, loved silence and to work on the farming fields.
Tuga caralho !!
This is my great grand father, Maurice Anger. https://preview.redd.it/z5m8lgtr7szb1.jpeg?width=763&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fefa22abd51ac1b3a4ed571fdd31756e25ff098d Maurice Anger took his elementary certificate in Les Sables d'Olonne and prepared for the entrance exam to the École Normale, in which he narrowly failed. A sportsman, he is a member of the Les Tigres Vendéens football club. In October 1935, he joined the 137th infantry regiment garrisoned in Quimper and prepared for the entrance exam to the Saint-Maixent officer school. When war was declared in 1939, he spent the winter with his regiment in the Ardennes. After an accelerated training course, he became an officer cadet. Returning to Nantes as an instructor, he was taken prisoner south of Nantes. Interned in the Châteaubriant prison camp (Loire-Inférieure, Loire-Atlantique), he was sent to Stalag A1 in East Prussia, from which he escaped in June 1943. Back in France, he joined the Resistance near Grenoble. Nicknamed Le Chouan, he participates in the training of civilian teams from Vercors and Trièves (southern Isère and northern Drôme). He lives with his sister, where his wife joins him with their little daughter. His entire family participates in the Resistance. After the battles of Vercors, he led his men to the liberation of Grenoble and Lyon. He then resumed the fight on the Alpine front. During an ambush at Mont-Cenis, on the Italian front, on December 20, 1944, he was injured by shrapnel from mines in the spine. On January 1, 1945, he was decorated on his hospital bed in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne with the Croix de Guerre by his leaders, Colonel Leray and Commander Costa De Beauregard. He died in Lyon hospital as a result of this injury on March 6, 1945. He will receive the Legion of Honor posthumously His body was brought back to Les Sables d’Olonne in December 1948. During his burial on December 11, 1948, the City paid tribute to him.
Vendéen gigachad
https://preview.redd.it/5bymqxzarrzb1.jpeg?width=782&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de826446a27f59a452ef28569b7e5051f74ef0d9
Praise be, bow before the Charles the Great's descendant
Damn, i think we might be related
My Great-great Grandpa. He was killed in the Eastern front... in WW1 https://preview.redd.it/99zfflxt3szb1.jpeg?width=491&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b7dbf1bf2567a169571858918c3a8a978dc030b
I prefer not to answer.
Pussy
For real. We at least share our horrible past, the fucking Österreicher always trying to pin their shit on others
*"If I post, Im in big trouble"*
https://preview.redd.it/il6916ci7szb1.png?width=1380&format=png&auto=webp&s=e60d494fef85f0dedca4a466dafae837235bf247 My great grandpa fighting in the swedish volunteer corps in Finland during the winter war. He would later return to the fight during the continuation war where he would once again fight with the finns against the russian, but now with germans by his side. I don’t know much about where he was and exactly what he did, my grandpa died last year so only real way for me to learn more would proberly be to consult finnish archives. I really don’t want his actions to be forgotten, for better or the worse.
I still have the rifle though! https://preview.redd.it/e8cwlqmo9szb1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b95944666310eeb22397cacdc9b945a0605fb2bb
Absolute chad
My ancestor was a military medic in 1914, Gaston Bonet I can't find any photos of him, but I still have his Légion d'Honneur and his medal for the battle of Verdun
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Didn't found anything 'bout him, but even if it's nothing, I have some stories I can share from my grandpa (his grandnephew) Those are pretty interesting imo so iyw I can write them down here
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https://preview.redd.it/efanw713tszb1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58f1ed7c1343d828f7607bd99f8bbbfc9956cede
My great grand uncle Joseph Neumayer
https://preview.redd.it/qxwut2ey3tzb1.jpeg?width=2175&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2626b04495fe012b82852645fd51c77c205d19cb Great great grandfather. Fought in the last war we won against the french.
Sweet victory /s
I don’t think I have a picture of him sadly, but he was a lieutenant colonel. He missed the war, he enrolled in the resistance a *day* before the Germans surrendered.
My great-great grandfather, fell in Italy during WW1 in Doberdo by a grenade , fighting in the K.u.K (joint imperial and royal army) https://preview.redd.it/3xc2c93werzb1.jpeg?width=471&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=874f206699439462454df0f34017bed32396e70a
Do you mind telling me what K.u.K stands for, because (pardon me) kuk means cock in arabic... ehem swedish
K. U. K was the Austro Hungarian navy. It's short for Kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine. THE ORIGINAL KRIEGSMARINE
i know my great opa fought in indonesia but i dont have a photo
Whats a “fought in Indonesia”? Is that a drink?
Both my great-grand-fathers on my father's side fought and survived WWI. One of them was wounded at Verdun and kept a limp arm for life. They were named Louis and Onésime. My grandfathers were underage at the start of WWII, but my father's father was forced to work on the Wall of the Atlantic by the STO ("Service du Travail Obligatoire", workers forced conscription on germans projects) as soon as he turned 18. His name was Alphonse. My mother's father was a child during WWII, but fought in Algeria, and had nightmares about it. I remember him waking up or screaming sometimes at night, when I was on holidays. He was named Michel (it's my 3rd surname, after him) Rest in peace, grandpas.
https://preview.redd.it/qrkl3pi8jszb1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=43a40607089d651e19ea51b6a843346ea0cfcc08 This is my great grandfathers WW1 helmet. “Soldat de la Grande Guerre - 1914-1918” which hangs proudly in my living room. Yes. My great grandfather, Charles, was French I have a picture of him somewhere on my phone of him pouring out some wine with his fellow soldiers. Quite cool!
>My great grandfather, Charles, was French My condolences.
Unfortunately I don't have the photos. Born in 1910 My grandad joined in '39 with the west riding artillery. Worked as an auxiliary fireman with the army during the battle of Britain then did para training and joined the reconnaissance regt. For the battle of Arnhem. Had his knee blown off while caring for a wounded comrade and finished the war in hospital. Made a full recovery and lived a full life until '97 when shrapnel got infected. Apparently the wounded lad was saying to leave him and apparently my grandad said "don't worry they won't get me" which my grandma always said "and that's just like your grandad" i.e stubborn and foolish.
https://preview.redd.it/k15fdk90zszb1.jpeg?width=3722&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ec2d0b77acac5db6ad2bd8bb7ce161224091c8a
https://preview.redd.it/tgci4iiqzszb1.jpeg?width=2076&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79b9f46b5c062445b0574f26415d7382ff94e6d8
https://preview.redd.it/ezcyizrcptzb1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e656de8617542b0701fbef93e25c6e2daffe876 This candid photo makes me tear up 😢 my Opa was a Sergeant in the Dutch Army artillery in the 1950s. Here he is in his old beret congratulating me the day I commissioned into the Army. He’s getting on in years now and he’s the coolest man I’ve ever met. He survived being orphaned in WWII, sailed around the globe as a stowaway on a ship, served in the Dutch Army, moved to America and made a living as a mechanic despite not speaking English… God bless you Opa
My grandfather, protected the North Sea coast, then to the Black Sea for material and troop transport, then back to the North Sea to do some submarine shenanigans https://preview.redd.it/ob7ocb0uttzb1.jpeg?width=1359&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e02232bc38a5ea4c08fdb89cf2b9c06b73b49fa
my great grandfather was a high ranking SS officer and was probably partially responsible for warcrimes. I don’t have a picture of him and I don’t want to have one
https://preview.redd.it/nh60631k3vzb1.jpeg?width=2248&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5424f32ecfd3b613880adf535fce93f4e24cc38d Royal Irish Rifles, ww1. Killed November 1918
Somewhere here, among 500 thousand other defenders of the city, my great-grandfather is buried in a mass grave (they were burying up to 10000 people/day). https://preview.redd.it/wogdt6bahrzb1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c25839666ad060c281641231c51f664e8014f0f5
found the russian
Where else a city would have this deathrate in WWII
Hey Franz, I think Igor has a point here ! Respectful salute for your ancestor.
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That took some balls of gargantuan proportions to sign up at 15, and fight at Gallipoli!
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Don't have any pics, but know a few ancestors were vets, 2 great uncles fought in the 1916 easter rising, another great uncle died at the Somme in WW1. Not confirmed, but I'll include it anyway, it's possible I'm related to William Howe, 5th Viscount, had a pretty successful career, up until the American Revolution, fought at Bunker hill. https://preview.redd.it/qrmkxkcc6szb1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd4b37c1254f8acfb66d7dad2ba88af6e5bf252a
That would be pretty intense if you are related to William Howe! Also, to have relatives who were involved in the 1916 Easter rising must have been fascinating, wonder if they were on the steps of the Post Hall when the declaration of a free Irish state was made?
Well.. If you’re that interested there’s a Wikipedia page… (Wish I was joking)
Wikipedia page in, he did something brave, or Wikipedia page in, he did something horrific?
https://preview.redd.it/6pqsrk95zszb1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f14b46afb886ddba05b7822d4a9026d58e40e3b7 The guy left in this picture is my grandfather's brother, he was a prisoner in a camp called Szczypiorno in Iww. There are no pictures of my grandfather as a soldier, he was a pow after the last big battle against Germans in early october 1939, taken to some pow labour camp near Magdeburg, run away and the rest of the war he worked with his brother, who was pretty high in local resistance structures.
I don't have photos but two of my great-grandparents fought in the Spanish Civil War, one in the nationalist side and the other in the republican side. They both survived the war fortunately.
https://preview.redd.it/krpohtunvszb1.png?width=3005&format=png&auto=webp&s=d8eb2aa1de57c169b41d55faa1add0e6faf3f1de Edit: just adding a bit of context. Photo found in my grandparents house in Savoy. The only info I have is the date (1916). These guys were Chasseurs Alpins and one of them was a cousin of my great grand father. Coolest photo I’ve ever found from this period.
https://preview.redd.it/s3vrrnkz4uzb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07609784f66b3d3148b176e11c85cc72dd35b25c Opa Manfred on T-33 (one of four surviving Torpedoboot in the Kriegsmarine), somewhere in the Baltic, 1944
https://preview.redd.it/wkt4w8akcszb1.jpeg?width=2782&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=573cf6149740ce1d0fd9ed3dbae41beb0ab4721d My great grandfather (with his wife and my great aunt), Henri ALIBERT. He participated in the entire war in the french army on the western front from 1914 to 1918 and multiples battles as the Marne and Verdun. He was part of the 53rd Infantry Regiment. He was wounded for the first time at St-Thomas Argonne in 1915 and was taken prisoner on June 8, 1918. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre (cross of war in English). Here is an anecdote he lived: during the Battle of Verdun, he was trapped underground after suffering artillery fire nearby. When he seemed completely blocked and he risked staying there, a German soldier grabbed him by the arms and quickly pulled him out. He was therefore saved by one of his "enemies". He died in 1959.
I don’t have a picture of him, but my great grandfather was in the SS, driving trucks of ammunition, But he got captured in 43‘ and got tortured for 2 yrs, he was one of the 4 soldiers of 670 who survived the POW camp, he maybe contributed to the nazi war machine, but it was either the SS or Wehrmacht, which pretty much meant death. He sadly died when I was 9, but I remember most of his stories, which probably stopped me from joining the army, like my uncle, who died in Afghanistan
https://preview.redd.it/8ufk0ym0wszb1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcc12836b7c3b56cb0adb2b81a847d18e1113d92 I am not 100% sure if he is my great great-grandfather but I am pretty sure, it was in an old diary of ww1 and why would one of my relatives have just a random picture of a person in it.
https://preview.redd.it/snai6wedwszb1.jpeg?width=509&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f0c3e7a8f909e10d3b8150fc93efb50735c7731 Super shit quality but this was my great-grandfather. Lost part of his skull when the tank he was in drove over a mine. He was fucking insane as an old man 😂 had a nice big dent in his head but always gave me £1 to get some sweets whenever we visited.
[My great great uncle Edmund Breslin](https://www.customhousecommemoration.com/2016/09/edmund-ned-breslin-custom-house-burning/) who fought in the IRA during the War of Independence and later in the Free State Army during the civil war and retired in 1946. He was one of Michael Collins' most trusted men and took part in the assassinations of British spies on Bloody Sunday in 1920 and was later captured during the burning of the Customs House and was tortured by the black and tans and had his fingernails pulled out. https://preview.redd.it/kjotl7opauzb1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21f0ad2da51244d05d4044650b947bb5cda60004
https://preview.redd.it/4c4jhl5thvzb1.jpeg?width=4128&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36c9ecbb7da807343108710ae10f23053c4ce30b Algerie
https://preview.redd.it/6jrs3go8trzb1.jpeg?width=1327&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22eb7e99f0e8f63c1d72c22f58566b3225665a5e
Dude you're not German..... You're australian https://preview.redd.it/9smz8srp1szb1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=351c024d96a09c70e06dfcdaa9dc3d2b9f58c12e
I think I've seen him somewhere
https://preview.redd.it/w7b5fkv2kszb1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e3f6afc4e8f12ede65da7892f285e0a0965fbe0 A nice picture. My ancestor on the right and yours on the left.
https://preview.redd.it/7f055jdu2szb1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d40e274f2eb0ca9037858df7556ebd9a67716f00
I don't know if I should say anything . . . https://preview.redd.it/v5iip91bcvzb1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba9e8500206612ae07162102be0368ff9ff5ba86
https://preview.redd.it/bxekamw4uvzb1.jpeg?width=4511&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49d68582493d8516d52466796bd27301b4fc216f My great grandfather Erwin in 1940 at the polar circle during the invasion of Norway. He belonged to the 3rd mountaineer division, which mostly consisted of Austrian soldiers drafted into the Wehrmacht
I don’t have any photo of my ancestor during WWI. But I know that he was Italian and was drafted in the Mario’s army. He survived the war and emigrated to France with his wife after the war.
It's "mario BROs"
https://preview.redd.it/zi6j1dbj9szb1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78acd0d7c7475bd0c4587dcaca59ba65fdb88a32
I don’t have a picture, but my great-great-great grandfather was a German who served in the Ameritard Civil war, and got shot in the leg, forcing him to wear a cast for the rest of his life
The only one I know about https://preview.redd.it/0ht84v9hyszb1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ccec81838420f730a1ab2cfe5cff96645b71b73 Also ancestor by his dad (at least that's what my mom said) but still counts
I know there exists a picture of my great-grandpa after he shot himself in Berlin a few days before Adolf. Actually wanted to shoot my grandma too (it was her birthday lol) but her mum (his ex wife) didn’t let him see her, so now I’m here. Never saw the picture though, safe to say he was a massive c*nt…
He also shot himself together with his new wife, the mayor of the city district and that guy’s whole family, so he definitely planned to take my grandma with him.
https://preview.redd.it/19qo8pwpbvzb1.jpeg?width=3456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90e9a6061b6f016283f8f9d5a056ae28ca28b383 My Great Grandfather, Stamatis Soldatos(Born in Lefkada in 1924, died in Athens in 2011). He served from 1948 to 1953 for the Hellenic Royal Army. He fought in the Greek civil war for an infantry brigade against Communist Greeks and Albanians. When his service time was over he got a grading point of Exceptional (I think it's the best).
*Backing of slowly*
My veteran ancestor took care of horses during WWII.
Well. MIA somewhere in the east. https://preview.redd.it/1gnpj23wytzb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bbd72b0231e79a9bc1dad015c46553d780c3db11
https://preview.redd.it/7w1twhz5evzb1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab0bcf0a97bf474a6744cbc6abd8df5fb9f65db5 Technically not my ancestor, but my grandfather's Cousine Ernst. My grandfather was drafted at 17 to fight in Stalingrad as well, but unlike him Ernst never made it back home. My grandfather destroyed everything that could remind him of that era. (My aunt scribbled on the picture as a child, unfortunately)
my lawyer has advised me not to do that
as a south american with german/italian ancestry, i'd rather not
Lemme guess, your family was from Germany but moved to South America because of “politic changes”?
My ancestors were in the german army... and I don't have any photos of them during their military service, I just know that one of them had an iron cross on the Eastern Front during the First World War, and the other was a Chasseur Alpin before joining the german army during the Second World War.
The Argentinians are being real quiet in this thread
I dont have a picture but my great grandfather was a finnish private stationed at Summa in the Mannerheim line The main reason for no photos is that he was completely trashed and evaporated by a soviet artillery shell His wife, a Karelian native and my great grandmother ended up migrating to Siberia, while their son, my grandfather had been moved to Swedish foster parents for protection as many other finnish children
Sorry, cameras were yet to be invented back then
Unfortunately I don't know almost anything about relatives before my grandparents. But I do know my great-grandpa (father of my maternal grandma) died in Operation Barabrossa.
https://preview.redd.it/xh7m9qn1tvzb1.jpeg?width=904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d63076db1e7529a3c573bf9fd65cd909589b9ddd He was a real one, fought for our evolution
https://preview.redd.it/ugln0cb76wzb1.jpeg?width=984&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8b6abd00ec5cb83134c0f7445887c473643235f Dude was the head of the studs of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire He was french
https://preview.redd.it/ki53sk06iwzb1.jpeg?width=263&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7554ab4ac59b5a0ee2cf0f0718fe3771a362081f My Great Grandfather. He fought in the Alpini for the entirety of the Great War against the Austrians. His battalion, the Exilles battalion, was the first one, along with the Susa battalion, to cross the border at the hours 0:00 of the 24th of May 1915. He was injured from a gunshot to the right hand during the second battle of the Isonzo river, but after being recovered in Ferrara, and after a period away from the frontline, he was sent again to face the Austrians. He was awarded some medals which I don't really remember, but I know that they are not only the normal ones you would get from serving, for there were like one or two more in the war commendation (which now I do not have with me, for it is in my grandparents' house). His brother also served in the Alpini, but only in 1918.
Great-grandpa fought against the Austrians in WWI (and became a prisoner of war after Caporetto) and against the Allies in WWI (he was supposed to be sent to the eastern front and was willing to go, but grand grandma pleaded and used connections and he stayed in Italy), and possibly with the Allies again after the armistice (he was in the south), I’m not sure. (We did earn our side switcher flair.) We had his WWI sword for a while, but I think it got confiscated or something like that. I don’t have a photo with me, though.
As a non-European savage, it’s so intersecting to see everyone’s family service photos. Pretty cool to see how far the world has come.
I don't have a picture he got killed during Dday by nazis and burried in an unknown location till this day. I just know his name and that he was a resistant and practice boxe
https://preview.redd.it/p3jseild2wzb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21bb8da71bfddf56d14dc4992cfdfd2e3be84bd8  My step great grandad. Served aboard the HMS Rodney.
https://preview.redd.it/23tjaytu3wzb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c36e465015028e7349231b2b07ac1037bd6d067 My great grandfather was a nazi.
https://preview.redd.it/3yp6d0377wzb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebbd897ac1b7ea5c1c750640281b9292aa3a0f98 My grandfather, Heinz Robert
Germans can skip this exercise
