Geography lesson needed: Russia, Ukraine or Galicia?

[daggers]

A very distant family connection died in 1917 serving in RNVR with the Armoured Car Division and was buried at Khmelnitsky Catholic Cemetery, Ukraine, according to CWGC.  His was the only burial recorded by them for that cemetery.  His probate record gives Galicia as place of death.  Is this the 'theatre of war' appropriate for Ukraine at that time please?

Daggers

Edited 29 March , 2019 by daggers

[Guest]

This would be Lt Edwards- the only Brit. listed by CWGC.  I note the description of where he died on CWGC details-a pencilled note of what the original memorial said???

 

Generally, "Galicia" means the north-eastern area of the former Austria-Hungary.  A good atlas should solve it.  I heard last week the historian Jay Winter speak at LSE- Part of his speech was the problem of commemoration- and how one cemetery can have a Polish "Unknown Soldier" memorial, and a Russian one, let alone Ukrainian-let alone  how there could be Ukrainian SS troopers of the next shindig all buried there. 

[michaeldr]

It's to the east of Skalat 

so by this map it is technically outside 1914 Galicia

 

But in this context (a theatre of war) it's probably close enough

[daggers]

Thank you both.  I am now much better informed and have no plans to stir up any organisation.

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[michaeldr]

 

As the second round has already been mentioned... ... ...

Jonathan Bouquet, the Observer/Guardian columnist who loves words

couldn't resist Galicia this week, offering a quote from Heinrich Böll’s novel, The Train Was on Time, about a young German soldier going to the Eastern Front in the Second World War - “Galicia, a dark word, a terrible word, and yet a splendid word. It sounded something like a knife cutting very quietly ... Galicia ... ”