Family Military History

[Kaspias]

Döndüğünde yaz bana toplanalım, bir şeyler daha soracağım

Tamamdır aga. Ocak sonu gibi geleceğim

[Moje ime]

Do you have any ancestors or relatives who have served in any armed conflict?

Yes for sure. In every war on Balkan.

[Pansarkamrat]

From my mothers side they fought in Finnish Winter war and Finnish civil war also in the Continuation War. I have Heard that my Swedish grandfather fought in the Winter war i and on his side alot of my ancestors had tought in several wars when Sweden was a greate Power.

[itilvolga]

Paternal great grandfather from my paternal grandmother side: Caucasus front of WW1 and Turkish Independence War
Paternal great grandfather from my paternal grandfather side: Caucasus front of WW1

Maternal great grandfather from my maternal grandmother side: was a Zeibek on Bozdag and Aydin Mouintains. He was a kizan and helper of Gokcen Efe.

[CordedWhelp]

Both of my grandfathers fought in WWII. Earlier this decade I was going through an old family chest at my childhood home and uncovered a box with my paternal grandfather's medals: addressed to me! That was an interesting moment...lol...

In addition, although I derive mainly from immigrants from later 19th century/early 20'th century, I do have a sliver of colonial German ancestry. One ancestor was a Major during the American Revolutionary War.

Scroll down and check out the blurb about him and the Tories who stole from him...lol...

https://www.geni.com/people/Major-Ge...00020242149614

[Ülev]

[Vrazijadivizija]

Great great grandfather: served/fought in Austria Hungary during ww1 on the battlefield of Galicia,sadly he never returned from the war,there is not even a grave.
Used to think he died on Italian front but my father told me recently that it was after all Eastern front.

Great grandfathers:One in Handžar Divsion
One in Anti partisan division
Rest were Ustaše
Grandfather:Ustaša division.
Father: Croatian independance war.

[Mikula]

WWI - All of my 4 greatgrandparents fought in the uniform of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
One of them (father of my paternal grandma) died at milirary hospital at Osijek in 1918/1919.

Napoleonic Wars - My paternal 4xgreat-grandfather (b. 1789, d. 1840) served in 1806-1818 as a soldier of the Austrian Empire

[gixajo]

I have had family military History and some (temporary) personal military History. (I will not speak here about what I have done,but it´s nothing epic or extraordinary).

-My father was during his university studies in what were called "milicias universitarias" (university militias), basically universitary students were trained in the summers as subofficers/officers to have a reserve of them in case there was a war. He ended his brief military life as an ensign (second lieutnant). He has never participated in any fight, war etc...

-My father's brother was deployed just after the first fightings of the Ifni war in that inclave during 60´s. saw some action but few.

-My maternal grandfather in northern Morocco during the Riff war, shortly after the Alhucemas landing. Same, hard life but few action.

In the Spanish civil war he was not called up because he was too old, married and already had 3 children. Since he was a Carlist and Álava was on the Francoist side, he would have fought on that side.

-My paternal grandfather began as a militiaman in a "cultural regiment" (I am not sure but probably anarchist) at the beginning of the Spanish civil war, but they were a group that dedicated itself to making itinerant theater through towns, making versions of popular plays for Republican propaganda purposes.

When the Popular Army of the Republic was created, he was appointed sergeant in a signals unit and he was basically joining command posts with telephone lines etc... all the action he had was escorting prisoners. I finished the war as a lieutenant.

I know several ancestors of my mother participated in Carlist wars, but I have just documents of one brother of my great great-grandfather , second in command of a unit of volunteers, and strangely Liberal volunteers (opposite to the Carlists), but it is very common that in the same family there are brothers on different sides.

I don´t know more about all this, but without a doubt that in practically all the generations of my ancestors (like almost everyone here )there have been military men who participated in important wars for our country or for the world.

[Blondie]

My dad side:
WW1, in german army, i have no idea what front
WW2, in german army (Heeresgruppe Süd), eastern front, one has died in Stalingrad or Harkov i dont know, other were defenders of Budapest in 1944-1945

My mother side:
WW1, austro-hungarian army, eastern front, my great great grandfather was prisoner of war in Leningrad, he met with Lenin too
WW2, german army, eastern front but i dont know exactly where

My dad and grandmother said these things long time ago. So they were mostly in the german army.