Austro-Hungarian military cemetery in Verona

[phil andrade]

Several years ago I was taken by a friend of mine, who lives in Verona, to visit an Austro-Hungarian military cemetery. We do not hear much about these victims of the Great War. I was surprised to find a cemetery with about six thousand dead in a city that was - I assume - some distance from the frontline of 1915-1918. Was Verona a railhead ? These soldiers were, I guess, sick or wounded POWs.

The most striking thing was the mixture of Teutonic and Slavic names - about equal in number, and a testimony to the hotch potch nature of that old and incongruous empire.

Phil.