Our only family photograph of a young man now 17 years my junior lost, like many others, in the build up to the Somme Offensive, September 1916. The photo is of one of my heroes and reminds me of how strong a woman my Grandma (his youngest daughter) was. She grew up without a father and lost her husband in 1939. A different breed. much admired, much loved and very much missed. RIP || Front

My great-grandfather Szymon Szulc was born in Cracow, Poland in 1888. He was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in the beginning of the war in 1914. One of the photos I would like to add was taken in that time. While in army he was diagnosed with the TB and spent some time in a military hispital in Jičín, Bohemia. From there, on Feb. 16th 1915 he sent a photo postarcd home to his father - Józef Schulz, saying he was all right and alive. In the photo he is the one sitting in the front row in the left. After leaving the hospital he went to Vienna where he worked in the Ministry of War. The third photo - also sent as a postcard - was taken sometime later during the war. Szymon Szulc is first from the left. || Three scanned photographs depicting my great-grandfather Szymon Szulc during the Ist WW. He was in the Autro-Hungarian army

Two brass buttons with possibly the Royal Insignia on them.