Mine fled Germany or Austria in the ‘30s. No one is quite sure what the truth is.

Yeah, nobody remembers exact dates anymore, but they do know they came from Poland to Detroit around then.

mine was Romania way I think

one of my friends has his great-grandfather's austro-hungarian draft notice from 1914, they YEETed out of Europe when it was issued

I spoke to my nan about it recently but can't remember

I've got all my grandads papers from the second world war

his draft, logbook, his reassigment notice

his SOE writ

That's about it. Nobody wanted to go die for someone else's war

Cause he spoke fluent German they put him in the SOE 45-47 to hunt German officers in Germany

ones who had gone undercover etc

My great uncle went to Germany and lost a leg to a landmine. His son has some cool German memorabilia from him.

German Luger and stalhelms

They also have his documents from the US stating he was considered an Enemy Alien after the US entered the war

aha found it

new i had a picture somehwere

Portrait of my grandad done by an officer he bought in

guess as a thank you (?)

war is weird man so idk the exact reasons behind it

Nice man. Keep it forever.

theres a 46 date and signature in the bottom left

yeah I have his medals above my bed at home

thats at my nans house but I think she's left it to me

my great-grandfather

Springfield?

yeah

which is actually unusual for 1918

Nice. I like how minimalistic gear used to be.

that's called parade order

no bandage pouch or canteen

I wonder if any of my grandads stuff is still around

my nan kept quite a lot of it

medals, personal files etc

I'll ask her next time im home

Yeah odds are he’d have an M1917

Is he stateside in the photo Fugu?

we only found ou he was soe post death, that stuff is to the grave secret

this picture was taken in the US, I'm surprised he didn't have a Ross or Krag

Or a Nug or any of the other various training and drill rifles