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- Serbian fiddlers strike up a tune in the prison compound at Nagymegyer to provide entertainment for the prisoners on their day off from work.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Italian prisoners of war, captured in the fighting on Mount Michele, march down the mountain past Bosnian troops and into Austrian captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Secretary J. J. Hertig, a Danish Red Triangle worker, stands next to the grave of Vladimir Kavsky, an imperial Russian field chaplain who died in the prison camp at Spratzern in 1915. Secretary Hertig was one of the neutral secretaries who volunteered to replace the departing American secretaries in War Prisoners' Aid work in Austria-Hungary. The monument to the Russian soldier is interesting in its design and includes a poem in German.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Under the watchful gaze of Austrian guards, Serbian prisoners line up and await orders to march to an Austrian prison camp. The Serbians just arrived at the station and German soldiers, in the background, observe the Serbs. Note the empty horse drawn wagons which are lined up to be loaded with supplies from the train.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This color drawing shows an Austro-Hungarian infantry assault on Montenegrin positions on Mount Lovcen in January 1916. The Austrians sought to capture the fort at Kouk at the top of this mountain, which defended the kingdom's port at Cattaro. At dawn, 500 Austrian artillery pieces and the guns of the Austrian warships in the bay launched the barrage. After two days of shelling, the Montenegrins fell back to the capital, at Cetinje, and the Montenegrin commander-in-chief, General Radomir Vesovic, surrendered his army on 17 January 1916.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The 9th Hungarian Hussar Regiment overruns the Russian lines during the Battle of Limanova on the Carpathian Front.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photograph portrays the interior of the Roman Catholic chapel in the prison camp at Hajmasker showing the altar, the communion rail, and portrait of Christ praying above and behind the altar. Mario Bargato, an architect from Milan and an Italian prisoner, designed the chapel.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bloody street fighting erupted between Hungarian Honveds and Serbian infantry during the Austro-Hungarian assault on Belgrade in October 1915. These men are fighting in the old town section of the Serbian capital.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners are very busy making barrels, chairs, tables, book cases, and wagon wheels in the carpentry shop at Josefstadt. They provided the basic necessities which kept the prison camp running. There are drawings of horses hanging on the wall in the back of the shop.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Although the caption indicates that these Russian POW's are headed for Berlin, they are actually headed for a prison camp in Austria-Hungary. Marching in pairs, Russian prisoners drag their machine guns along a road behind an Austrian guard enroute a prisoner of war assembly center.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
