Family history WWI
I recently remembered that my mother once showed me some very old postcards from my great-grandfather from his service time in WWI. As I have seen them as a child, I only recalled some unknown-to-me men in uniforms and colorful images of exotic cities with people in strange fashion.
I asked her about them, and she wasn't sure what to do with them. So I offered to take them and digitally store them, as they are our last connection to this time.
After deciphering as much of the old German writing as I could, this roughly is the route my great-grandfather and his brother were sent in 1916: from northern Germany they traveled to Constantinople (Istanbul) where at least one of them stayed for over a year, then Aleppo, Beirut, Jerusalem and Cairo.
But not all cards have stamps and written text, they mostly were bought as souvenirs. So the route they took could have been even the other way around, as a lot of troops were sent per ship over the Mediterranean towards Beirut... Cairo puzzled me a bit, I thought it was in British hands. But maybe they stayed there after the armistice, before they were sent back!? Nobody in my family can answer these questions anymore, as they are all dead nowadays. And from what my mother told me, they did not talk about the War even when they were alive.
When I have scanned the postcards, I may upload some of them...
