Commemorating Those Who Fell in 1914

On the Saturday before last a monument to commemorate the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who were killed on August 2, 1914, was unveiled near the town of Horodok, Khmelnytsky oblast. The monument, which features a large black cross and three smaller ones on either side, stands over a common grave where 33 persons, who died on the second day of World War I, found their final resting place. At that time Horodok was a border town. “During the course of excavations conducted last summer human remains were found. Bits of ammunition left no doubt that these were cavalrymen of the Austro-Hungarian Army. The only identification tag found there contained information about a dead Hungarian soldier: Halasz Georgy, born in 1892,” said local historian and head of the excavations on the battlefield Ihor Oliynyk, in a conversation with The Day ’s correspondent. He hopes it will be possible to identify other soldiers buried in this grave: “There are many archival materials on the Horodok battle in Moscow.” Representatives of the Austrian Red Cross and Embassy of Hungary to Ukraine took part in the unveiling ceremony. The search for Georgy Halasz’s relatives has begun, reports The Day’s Mykhailo VASYLEVSKY.