[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Russian

[Lawrence Penno]

On 07/02/2012 1:41 PM, Spaghettitree at aol.com wrote:

There is an instrument called a coronet, very similar to a trumpet but 
not seen around much any more.
  Usually a band instrument with a sound similar to trumpet but a pitch 
or two lower. Has valves like a trumpet.
> I think he means a cornet - a bugle.
>
> Maureen
>
>
> In a message dated 2/7/2012 11:28:06 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> bronklimach at gmail.com writes:
>
> Lloyd,
> I am not familiar with a coronet - what type of  instrument is it please?
> Thanks for sharing the experience of your  family.
> Bronwyn.
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Lloyd Friedrick
> <lloydfriedrick at telus.net>wrote:
>
>> Hello John
>>
>>   Yup, you are right. Here is my family story. My family lived very near
>>   Rosysszcze in the heart of old Volhynia.
>> My Uncle Gottleib was drafted  into the Russian Army in 1904, he told us
>> that
>> the first few  years as a young recruit was a terrible experience. Young
>> draftees  were subjected to considerable and hard hazing. He did manage to
>> move  into the bridge and building section of the military and had a much
>>   easier time.
>>
>> My Uncle Karl was drafted in 1906, also at the  age of 18. Under the
> advice
>> of his older brother, he strived and  managed to learn to play a coronet
> and
>> got into the Military band. He  was able to desert later and told us the
>> story of walking all the way  to Germany. He emigrated to Canada sometime
>> later but always lived in  fear that someone from the Russian military
> would
>> come and get  him.
>>
>> My father, Ferdinand was almost 18 in April , 1914 when  the family heard
>> that the village schultz was instructed to produce 50  recruits for the
>> Russians.
>> The family panicked as they  realized that it was going to be a terrible
>> war.
>> They arranged  his passage to Canada with the assistance of a local Jewish
>> merchant,  which could be described as an early travel agent. He was
>>   smuggled
>> over the border to Poland in a load of hay and then onward by  train and
>> steamship.
>> All details were arranged, including a  few Canadian dollars sewn into the
>> lining of his coat and letters of  introduction all the way to a Jewish
>> boarding house in Winnipeg. His  18th birthday occurred while he was in
> the
>> mid Atlantic. He too,  always feared that the Russians would come some day
>> to
>> get him  to serve in their military.
>>
>> lloyd friedrick in Victoria,  BC
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gpvjem
>>   Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 5:16 AM
>> To: Marg Driechel ;  ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
>> Subject: Re:  [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Russian
>>
>>      My  Grandfather Emil Marsch, returned to Poland from Volhynia to serve
>>   in
>> the Russian Army from 1879 to 1884.  In a short account of  this he
>> described
>> it as "necessary to fulfill his military  duty" , i.e. drafted.  There was
>> no
>> war at that time. It  appears the Russian army in Poland was really an
>> occupation  army.
>>
>> John Marsch
>>
>>   ----------------------------------------
>>
>>
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