Antun Scholz (Šolc) K.u.K 100.IR to Zagreb

 Antun Scholz(Šolc) war memoirs from the Great War  were published in 2020 in Croatia. This great book is a rare WW1 war diary writen by a Croatian soldier. Antun Šolc was born in Zagreb but his father was from Vienna and Antun was therefore sent to serve with 4.Inf.Rgt from Vienna. He was quickly  transfered to 100.Inf.Rgt from Teschen. He writes that he was the only Croat in the Regiment. In the early 1915 100.IR was in Syrmia in the rear of the Serbian front, later it was  transfered to Italian front when Italy declered war on 23.05.1915.  With 100.IR Antun spent part of the war figthing on Italian front, participating in 1, 2 , 10, 11 and 12 Isonso battle and in fighting on the Piave front. In the diary he regularly writes about sending and recieving feldpost from family in Zagreb and from his brother Stanko serving with K.u.K 84.Inf.Rgt. By pure chance i acquired some of his feldpost cards...

Front cover  of the book which I highly recommend to all readers.

20.03.1915 card from Antun to his sister Draga Šolc in Tkalčićeva street no.68 in Zagreb , his home adress. Posted via Fp.69.  2nd.battalion of 100.IR was part of 12.Gebirgs brigade and used its Feldpost no.69. Stationed in Syrmia.

18.04.1915 card from Antun to his sister Draga Šolc in Tkalčićeva street no.68 in Zagreb , his home adress. Mailed via Fp.69. Stationed in Syrmia.

24.05.1915 card from Antun to his sister Draga Šolc in Tkalčićeva street no.68 in Zagreb , his home adress. Mailed via Fp.69. This card was mailed a day after Italian declaration of war on Austro-Hungary. Antun writes that they are moving to "you know where and we are glad to go there"  and   "we are all in high spirits. I already  know the thunder of the guns, nothing new". The next day Regiment moved from Syrmia to Italian front.

27.07.1917 card from Antun sister Vlasta in Zagreb  to his brother Stanko in 84.IR,  Fp.297 added by postman, censor cancel  Zagreb in green . Fp.297 served 25.Inf.Division in Galicia on the Russian front. Text has handwritten date 17.07.1917, this is probably an writting error. Vlasta writes that she has mailed some photos to him and to Antun(nick Tonana), his war diary confirms this few days earlier.

1.1944 - 1.Flughafen-Betriebs-Kompanie L.G.1 on Pleso airport to Reich

 

 29.01.1944 official registerer letter from  1. Flughafen-Betriebs-Kompanie L.G.1 which used Fp.L14713 to 1.Flieger Ersatz Bataillon XI in Neumünster in Germany. Mailed via Feldpostamt 530 based in Zagreb , Kenn-176 , used by Army group E. 

1. Flughafen-Betriebs-Kompanie L.G.1 operated on Pleso airport near Zagreb from 11.1943 until the retreat of German and Croatian army  from Zagreb on 06.05.1945. 

Pleso airport serves today as Zagreb and Croatia main airport , it was build by German forces in 1943 and from early 1944 was used by Luftwaffe as main transport and resupply airport .

 

5.1942 packet card to 2. Zračno područje Sarajevo.

 

 

 
 

15.05.1942 packet card from Andrijevci to Stožer 2.zračnog područja(2 Air command) or correcly 2.Zračna luka.Arrival cancel Sarajevo at the back 21.05.2021.