Postcard of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Joseph, in the Secessionist style. Kaiser Wilhelm is wearing the uniform and shako of the Death's Head Hussars.
Völkerkrieg (people's war)1914; In Treue FestPeople's WarFirm in Loyalty
"He fell without a murmur in the noise of battle; found rest'Midst the roar of hooves on the grass, a bullet struck through his breast.Perhaps he drowsily lay; for him alone it was still,And the blood ran out of his body, it had taken so little to kill."
Quatrain from the poem '1914' by Ferenc Békássy, who was killed at Dobronoutz in Bukovina, June 25, 1915. A Lieutenant in an Austro-Hungarian Hussar regiment, Békássy had studied at Cambridge College, England. A friend of John Maynard Keynes, Békássy was a rival of the English poet Rupert Brooke for the love of Noël Olivier, who went on to become a doctor. Békássy wrote in both English and Hungarian. The Hogarth Press published Adriatic and Other Poems, a volume of his English poetry, in 1925.
The Lost Voices of World War I, An International Anthology of Writers, Poets and Playwrights by Tim Cross, page 347, copyright © 1989 by The University of Iowa, publisher: University of Iowa Press, publication date: 1989
1915-06-25, 1915, June, Ferenc Bekassy, Ferenc Békássy, Bekassy, Békássy, 1914
