[A unit of soldiers] [An iconographic document] - [Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj] (1914)
The photograph shows a group of soldiers in military coats (most of them and the rest wear uniforms) and caps standing in a field. A small part of them have a rifles. Several of them are supported by a rifle and three are lying on the ground with their rifles directed ahead
The author of the photograph was the father of the photo owner. He was an engineer - building roads and bridges (a specialization in the former KK Austria), Mikołaj Bogdanowicz. During the 1st World War, as a native of Galicia, he was appointed to the Austrian army. In this army he was the commander of three companies of engineers, one of whom was Jewish company. The area of its operation was Volhynia and partially Podolia, where during many months of "stopping" of the front he was building trenches, roads, bridges, etc.
the period of the 1st World War, around Rivne (Volhynia, now Ukraine)
The photo sent to the contest named “Photography of the Polish village pre-1948” organized in 1983 by the quarterly “Fotografia” (Photography) and the weekly “Nowa Wieś” (New village). Copy of the photo kept at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (former Institute for the History of Material Culture)
Keywords: 1st World War (1914-1918); Austro-Hungarian Army; ethnography; material culture; social culture; army; soldier; weapon; uniform; clothing; Rivne, Volhynia-region (Ukraine)