The memory of the soldiers from Beregszász fallen in the First World War

On May 19, 2017, the audience of the town of Beregszász (Berehove) was able to take over the renewed Heroes’ Square. During the two decades of independent Ukraine, the overall image of the park at the heart of the town deteriorated day by day: the sight of shattered benches, wild vegetation and incomplete public lighting greeted the pedestrian.

The renewal affected the Soviet heroic monument in the middle of the square, from which the Soviet symbols were removed. The management of the town could not have acted otherwise, since according to the law 317-VIII of 2015 “On the Condemnation of Communist and National Socialist Totalitarian Regimes and the Prohibition of Their Symbols”, public memories of the Soviet era are to be removed throughout Ukraine. In this way, the heroic monument, now free from traces of communist ideology, preserves the memory of the Soviet soldiers who fell during the takeover of the area in the autumn of 1944. But what connection does this have to the local casualties of the First World War? The monument to the soldiers of the 4th Ukrainian “liberator” Front was erected in the summer of 1945, and the memory of the Hungarian community in Berehove preserves that fact that it was made on the basis of the heroic monument that was to preserve the memory of those who fought and fell in the First World War, and was decorated with the Hungarian national flag. One square, two wars, three countries, three memory policies.

On May 31, 1942, in the main square of Beregszász, the heroic monument decorated with the national flag was inaugurated in the presence of Chief Government Adviser István Polchy, State Secretary Tibor Pataki, Deputy Ishpan Zoltán Fekésházy and Mayor Kálmán Hubay. On July 13, 1941, the Beregszász Representative Board decided to erect a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Great War in Beregszász. The erection of the monument financed from public donations also meant the arrangement of the main square of Beregszász. The market, which had been operating there until then, was relocated, the area was landscaped, and the new square was named after Lajos Kossuth. The heroic monument was combined with a national flag, and the sculptor Ferenc Varga from Budapest was commissioned to build it. By the way, the placement of the national flag was an important element of the Hungarian irrendentist movement of the time, so the heroic monument of Beregszász not only intended to remind of the fallen soldiers of the First World War, but also indicated the revisionist aspirations of the time.

A tender was issued for the construction of the monument, which had to be completed as soon as possible on the instructions of the representative body, as according to the document of the decision: „ […] the erection of the National Flag, united with the Heroes’ Monument, is a long-standing desire of the public of the town of Beregszász, conceived immediately upon liberation, and is also an honorary and even a statutory duty: the procrastination must end at all costs […] „

According to the plans, the works should have been completed by November 9, 1941, so the handover could have taken place on the anniversary of the city’s return to Hungary. However, this was only done with a delay of half a year. The monument, made of gray granite, consisted of two parts, each consisting of three arches. In each of its columns stones from the most important historical monuments of Bereg County were placed, on which a memorial plaque indicated the place of origin of the stone and its historical relevance. Between the arched parts, a pole of the national flag was placed on an obelisk resting on four columns. On the white obelisk of the monument there is a text “Dulce et decorum est pro patria morti!” meaning “It is a sweet and glorious thing to die for the homeland”. Interestingly, apart from this inscription, no other feature on the monument revealed that it was erected in honour of the soldiers who fell in the world war. It is noteworthy that the list of people from Beregszász who had fallen in the war was not placed on the memorial, despite the fact that it was included in the original plans. One possible reason for this is that the monument was not only intended for the fallen soldiers of the First World War, but also for the names of the Beregszász victims of another war that was already raging. This is also evidenced by an excerpt from Mayor Kálmán Hubay’s call to public donations, which were essential for the erection of the monument: “In the World War of 1914-18 and today, in the bloody Russian fields, many people from Beregszász gave and are giving their lives for their homeland and a better Hungarian future.” The list of Beregszász victims was made available to the Beregszász city administration by the 22nd Department of the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Defense in April of 1942. The list of 176 names contained those who were residents of Beregszász at the time of their conscription and disappeared without a trace or were proven to have died during the world war.

The commemoration of those who died in the First World War in Beregszász did not occur until 1941. On August 13, 1935, the Beregszász representative body, then led by Jenő Ortutay, made a resolution on the compilation of a publication entitled The Book of Remembrance of the Soldiers. With the help of questionnaires, Beregszász officials compiled a list of those who fell or disappeared without a trace, whose families were still living in the settlement. In addition to the questionnaires, short recollections of family members were recorded, photos were collected, and survivors were also visited, some of whom remembered the years of the Great War in shorter, others in longer written memories.

The list, compiled in 1936, contains data on 107 war victims. The difference between the 1936 and 1942 lists presumably stems from the fact that while earlier Beregszász officials only collected data on persons whose families lived in Beregszász after the war, the 1942 list prepared by the Ministry of Defense included all of those who disappeared or fell in the war and had Beregszász jurisdiction at the time of their conscription. Another difference is the fact that while the list compiled by the ministry includes only those who died during the war, the survey among families also included those who died at home as a result of an injury sustained in the war. Taking the two lists together, we have information on 204 people who fell, disappeared without a trace or died as a result of an injury sustained in the war.

The two lists are presented below in a separate, edited form. Both lists contain the personal details of the fallen, the rank and the name of the military body, as well as the circumstances of his disappearance or death, if known, of course. The majority of the fallen soldiers are from the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 65 founded in the 1860s in Munkács, as well as Infantry Regiment No. 11, also set up in Munkács. Most of the soldiers fell or were taken prisoner on the Eastern Front, the youngest of whom was 18 and the oldest 55 years old. In terms of their occupation, there were farmers, spice shop owners, cart drivers, tailors, shoemakers, accountants, opera singers etc. among them. Questionnaires from the 1936 collection also show that many of the veterans became incapable of work, and families were severely affected by the long term effects of the war. Imre Barta, a timber merchant born in 1885, was one of the lucky ones from Beregszász who could return home from the First World War alive and without serious injuries. During the 1936 data collection, he filled in a data request form in which he described his war memories in detail, including the everyday life in Japanese captivity. He concluded his recollection with the following lines: „War brings misery, suffering and humiliation even to those who have fought in the first line for the well-being of nations by sacrificing their lives.”

Pierre Nora writes, “Even as traditional memory disappears, we feel obliged assiduously to collect remains, testimonies, documents, images, speeches, any visible signs of what has been, as if this burgeoning dossier were to be called upon to furnish some proof to who knows what tribunal of history.” Between the two world wars, the memory of the Beregszász soldiers who fell in the Great War was still alive, in the 1940s the public wanted them to be remembered according to the political mood of the time, and after the Second World War there was no political will to preserve their memory. The only essential aim of this study is to preserve, at least in this form, the names of those to whom death was brought by the cataclysm that marked the beginning of the 20th century.

A list of residents of Beregszász who fell or went missing during World War I created in 1936
(State Archive of Transcarpathian Oblast, Fond No. 108, Opis No. 7, Unit 427)

No.	Name	Regiment	Rank	Age	Time of death/date of disappearance	Place of death
1.	Mihály Algács-Nyíri	Horse Regiment No. 14	soldier	19	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
2.	János Artimovics	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	24	31.12.1917	Russian battlefield
3.	Benő Bacskó	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	corporal	29	1915.03.27	illegible handwriting
4.	Géza Bálint	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	26	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
5.	Sándor Balog	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	23	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
6.	Mihály Balogh	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	22	30.12.1918	Russian battlefield
7.	János Belián	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	35	30.12.1919	Russian battlefield
8.	Zsigmond Beregi (Manskopf)	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	31	31.12.1920	Russia
9.	József Berky	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	43	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
10.	József Berdics	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	44	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
11.	Ferenc Bégányi	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	18	18.12.1917	Romania
12.	Mihály Birgány	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	corporal	33	28.05.1918	illegible handwriting
13.	Lajos Bosnyák	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	40	21.12.1918	Russia
14.	Sándor Csapó	no information	sailor	24	02.12.1916	illegible handwriting
15.	Ludvik Csengeri	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	20	17.04.1915	illegible handwriting
16.	József Csernáti	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	29	11.12.1915	in Russian captivity
17.	Mihály Csók	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	39	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
18.	József Dancs	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	44	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
19.	Ferenc Dancs	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	24	25.12.1915	Silesia
20.	Sándor Dalosi	Uprising Mountain Artillery Regiment No. 6	no information	25	21.12.1916	Alessio, Albania
21.	Sándor Draveczky	Army Infantry Regiment No. 4	cadet	41	21.07.1916	Zarcze, Galicia
22.	István Erdélyi	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	22	30.11.1916	Prosiec, Galicia
23.	István Faragó	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	39	13.08.1916	Beregszász (Berehove)
24.	János Fekete	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	39	13.06.1919	Silesia
25.	Móricz Fenerstein	Army Infantry Regiment No. 91	soldier	27	31.12.1918	Russia
26.	Sámuel Friedman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	22	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
27.	Mihály Gáthy	Infantry Regiment No. 65	illegible handwriting	31	04.11.1914	Kraków
28.	András Gécza	Army Infantry Regiment No. 12	soldier	21	31.12.1918	Italian front
29.	Lajos Gyulai	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	lieutenant	36	31.12.1915	Russian captivity
30.	Balázs Horváth	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	17	20.12.1917	Beregszász (Berehove)
31.	János Horváth	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	41	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
32.	József Hottek	Uprising Infantry Regiment No. 88	no information	26	11.07.1916	Public hospital of Beregszász
33.	János Chmily	Uprising Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	43	21.10.1917	no information
34.	Gyula Jakubovics	Infantry Regiment No. 22	soldier	22	31.12.1918	Russia
35.	Pál Jónás	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	30	31.12.1914	Russian battlefield
36.	Bernát Katz	Infantry Regiment No. 65	corporal	31	22.02.1916	Russia
37.	Móricz Katz	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	31	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
38.	György Kapusztej	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	31	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
39.	Kálmán Krajnik	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	30	30.12.1919	Russian front
40.	Ábrahám-József Kaufman	Infantry Regiment No. 85	soldier	36	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
41.	Viktor Kálmán, Dr.	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	ensign	25	16.06.1916	Podhajce, Galicia
42.	Lajos Kázmér	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	34	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
43.	Jenő-Jakab Kősztenbaum	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11.	soldier	36	no information	illegible handwriting
44.	Jakab-Ábrahám Kősztenbaum	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	39	27.01.1917	illegible handwriting
45.	József Kolman	Uprising Infantry Regiment No. 20	soldier	47	22.02.1918	Beregszász (Berehove)
46.	Lajos Kovács	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	40	31.12.1918	Tashkent
47.	Pál Kovács	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	21	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
48.	Ferenc Kónya	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	37	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
49.	Sándor Kovács	no information	soldier	25	31.12.1917.	no information
50.	József Kovács	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	40	31.12.1918	Russian front
51.	Béla Kondra	Infantry Regiment No. 12	soldier	32	30.12.1919	Serbianbattlefield
52.	Jakab Klein	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	33	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
53.	Mózes Klein	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	24	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
54.	Jakab-Jenő Klein	Infantry Regiment No. 67	soldier	37	07.09.1916	illegible handwriting
55.	Sámuel Klein	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	20	21.09.1916	Bustia, Galicia
56.	József Kormos	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	38	31.12.1918	Italian captivity
57.	Pinkász Krepsz	Infantry Regiment No. 37	soldier	25	31.12.1918	Serbian front
58.	György Korosztin	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	48	31.12.1918	Albania
59.	János Kripilla (Kripta)	Army Infantry Regiment No. 10	uprising army soldier	35	25.10.1916	Poliana, Romania
60.	János Kustyán	Army Hussar Regiment No. 6	hussar	18	01.10.1916	Romania
61.	Péter Kurovszky	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	ensign	21	11.06.1916	Bohulivce
62.	József Kronémer	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	27	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
63.	Gáspár Lázár	Uprising Infantry Regiment No. 60	no information	20	04.07.1916	Public hospital of Beregszász
64.	József Máthé	Army Infantry Regiment No. 9	soldier	22	24.04.1915	Russian battlefield
65.	Sándor Máthé	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	39	30.08.1915	Beregszász (Berehove)
66.	Lajos Mészáros	Infantry Regiment No. 34	soldier	28	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
67.	Ferenc Mácsai	Army Infantry Regiment No. 101	soldier	36	30.12.1918	Serbian front
68.	Bernát Nagy	Infantry Regiment No. 91	soldier	27	31.12.1918	Russia
69.	Miklós Nagy	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	34	30.09.1917	Russian battlefield
70.	Ferenc Orgován	no information	no information	30	30.12.1919.	Russian font
71.	Imre Porubanér	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	20	30.07.1916	Teschen
72.	Ferencz Presznánszky	Infantry Regiment No. 34	no information	21	08.05.1918	Lemberg (Lviv)
73.	Miklós Papp	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	37	31.12.1917	illegible handwriting
74.	Ferenc Papp	Infantry Regiment No. 5	soldier	36	31.12.1918	Russian front
75.	János Popovics	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	35	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
76.	János Popovics	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	55	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
77.	Lajos Pobránszky	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	40	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
78.	József Rácz	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	27	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
79.	Antal Rákosi	Infantry Regiment No. 65	illegible handwriting	31	22.12.1914	Sułoszowa, Poland
80.	György Rapcsák	Infantry Regiment No. 32	uprising army soldier	44	12.08.1916	Beregszász (Berehove)
81.	Mózes Reisz	Uprising Infantry Regiment No. 60	soldier	25	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
82.	Ignác Reiler	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	24	31.12.1918	Russian front
83.	János Riskó	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	41	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
84.	Lajos Rozenfeld	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	23	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
85.	János Roják	Hussar Regiment No. 15	hussar	33	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
86.	Karácson Rusz	Uprising Infantry Regiment No. 64	no information	49	11.12.1917	Beregszász (Berehove)
87.	András Simon	Infantry Regiment No. 65	infantryman	25	23.07.1915	illegible handwriting
88.	István Simon	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	31	01.10.1915	illegible handwriting
89.	Imre Szabó	Infantry Regiment No. 65	lance-corporal	23	24.05.1915	Kolomyia, Galicia
90.	István Szabó	Infantry Regiment No. 39	soldier	38	31.12.1918	St. Petersburg, Russia
91.	József Szatmáry	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	43	04.11.1937	illegible handwriting
92.	Pál Szentléleky	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	27	31.12.1918	Russia
93.	Vendel Szentgróti	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	55	31.12.1919	Russian front
94.	Bertalan Szűcs	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	45	31.12.1918	Serbian front
95.	András Tóth	Infantry Regiment No. 65	extra soldier	30	03.09.1914	Russia
96.	József Tégli	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	42	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
97.	József Varga	no information	no information	31	31.12.1919	Konstanca, Romania
98.	György Vaskó	Infantry Regiment No. 65	extra soldier	24	16.03.1915	Poland
99.	Mihály Vasvári	Infantry Regiment No. 65	infantryman	23	19.09.1914	Uhnov, Galicia
100.	József Végh	Infantry Regiment No. 65	soldier	43	31.12.1918	Russian front
101.	János Volf	Camp Hunter Battalion No. 15	lance-corporal	25	14.09.1916	Cârlibaba, Bukovina
102.	János Balega	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	35	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
103.	József Markóczy	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	29	31.12.1918	Russian front
104.	András Seres	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	34	31.12.1918	Russian battlefield
105.	Márk Sztojka	Infantry Regiment No. 5	soldier	28	15.01.1916	Beregszász (Berehove)
106.	Mózes Simon (Löwenrint)	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	soldier	33	01.01.1919	Russian battlefield

A list of soldiers from Beregszász died or disappeared between 1914 and 1918
issued by the Hungarian Royal Ministry Of Defense in  1942

(State Archive of Transcarpathian Oblast, Fond No. 67, Opis No 3, Unit 386)

No.	Name	Rank	Regiment	Place of birth (Hungarian name of the settlement)	Year of birth/Age	Recorded information
1.	Mihály Nyirga	hussar	Hussar Regiment No. 14	Disznóshorvát(Izsófalva)	1896	Injured, according to the loss registry issued on April8, 1917
2.	Konstantin Almásy	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Nagyrákócz	1874	no information
3.	Bertalan Altberger	lance-corporal	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1888	no information
4.	József Angalét	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1884	no information
5.	János Artimovics	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	24 years old	no information
6.	Endre Bacsár	szakaszvezető	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1882	no information
7.	Benő Bacskó	corporal	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	no information	According to a graveyard registry, died on March 27, 1915 and was burried in grave no. 118 at the [illegible handwriting] cemetery.
8.	István Baksay	first lieutenant	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1875	According to a graveyard registry and an official notification, died on August 31, 1916 at Wojni
9.	Ferenc Balla	corporal	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Csaroda	1874	According to an official notification, died o August 26, 1916 at the local military hospital No. 19 in Bratislava
10.	János Balega	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	35 years old	no information
11.	Mihály Balogh	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	22 years old	no information
12.	Sándor Balog	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	23 years old	no information
13.	Géza Bálint	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	26 years old	no information
14.	János Belián	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	35 years old	no information
15.	József Berditz	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	44 years old	no information
16.	Zsigmond Beregi	cadet	ArmyInfantry Regiment No. 21	Beregszász (Berehove)	approx. 38 years old	According to a graveyard registry, died of typhus in February in Russian captivity, in Alchinsk
17.	József Berky	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	43 years old	no information
18.	Antal Berta	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 12	no information	no information	no information
19.	Ferenc Bégányi	uprising soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 17	Beregszász (Berehove)	1898	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died a heroic death (from a wound) on September 18, 1917, at the [illegible handwriting] strait.
20.	Mihály Birgány	corporal	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1881	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died on May 28, 1915 at Crosno
21.	István Birta	titularlance-corporal	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1894	According to the loss registry No. 549 issued on April 12, 1917, was captured by the Russians; the place of internment is not disclosed
22.	Lajos Biró	infantryman	no information	no information	no information	In the absence of further data, the identity cannot be established due to the widely used name
23.	Lajos Bosnyák	titularlance-corporal	UprisingInfantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1878	Went missing, according to the regiment report received on February 21, 1915
24.	Sándor Csapó	no information	Danube Steamship Company	Beregszász (Berehove)	1892	According to the soldier’s death certificate , drowned in the Sabaci district on November 3, 1916
25.	Sándor Cseh	corporal	Infantry Regiment No. 32	no information	1899	no information
26.	Lajos Csengeri	no information	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1894	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died at Rudniki on April 17, 1915
27.	József Cselle	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 37	Hetyen	no information	According to the regiment report, went missing at Lobachevka on July 21, 1916
28.	Károly Csele	no information	no information	no information	no information	no information
29.	József Csernáti	no information	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1885	According to a Russian registry received in 1916, was held in Russian captivity and internated to Samarkand
30.	Mihály Csók	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	39 years old	no information
31.	József Dancs	no information	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	no information	According to a private notification received on April 7, 1916, was captured by the Russians and internated to  [illegible handwriting]
32.	Ferenc Dancs	infantryman	65. Infantry Regiment	no information	no information	According to a private notification received on  December 14, was captured by the Russians and internated to Voronyezh
33.	András Diglics	artilleryman	[illegible handwriting]	Beregszász (Berehove)	1891	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died of meningitis on December 4, 1917 at the hospital of Miskolc
34.	Sándor Fatul	hussar	Hussar Regiment No. 5	Nagysomkút	1887	no information
35.	Balázs Fekete	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	1890	no information
36.	nobleman János Fekete	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	39 years old	no information
37.	Sándor Fekete	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	1884	no information
38.	János Dániel Ferenczi	lance-corporal	Hussar Regiment No. 5	Komlós	1892	According to the soldier’s death certificate, on January 16, 1917 [illegible handwriting]
39.	Ignác Friedmann	uprising soldier	Uprising Infantry Regiment No. 5	Tarpa	1883	According to the regiment report, went missing on July 21, 1917
40.	Ignác Friedman	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1895	According to the regiment report, went missing at the Russian battlefield on between June 5 and 7, 1916
41.	József Friedmann	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Munkács (Mukachevo)	1881	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died a heroic death due to a gunshot wound to the head onApril 13, 1916 at Popova Monyka
42.	Sámuel Friedman	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	22 years old	no information
43.	József Gál	hussar	Hussar Regiment No. 14	Beregszász (Berehove)	1881	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died of cholera on July 17, 1915at the Halychreserve hospital No. 2
44.	Béla Gáthy	no information	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1882	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died of cholera on October 16, 1914 in Hajasd
45.	Kálmán György Gáthy	first lieutenant	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1873	no information
46.	Mihály Gáthy	no information	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1883	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died of tetanus on November 4, 1914in Krakow
47.	Simon Gelbermann	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	1894	According to the regiment report, went missing between June 5 and 7,near Taskowiez
48.	András Gécza	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 12	no information	21 years old	no information
49.	Lajos Gyulai	lieutenant	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Sátoraljaújhely	1879	According to the regiment report and the loss registry No. 526,was wounded and captured by the Russians on October 11,  1915, and, according to private information, died during the same year
50.	György Hamar	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	1873	no information
51.	József Hamar	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	1883	no information
52.	Bernát Hezskó	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Nagytarna	1873	no information
53.	István Horváth	e.é.ö.	Infantry Regiment No. 92	Hete	1896	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died in captivity on February23, 1917 in Asinara
54.	János Horváth	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	41 years old	In the absence of further data, the identity cannot be established due to the widely used name
55.	Zoltán Pálóczi Horváth	cadet	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	no information	According to a graveyard registry, dies on December 7, 1916 and was buried in grave No. 1. of the reformed cemetery of Beregszász
56.	Pál Inglik	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Fehérgyarmat	1873	no information
57.	Gyula Izsák	ensign	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	no information	According to the regiment report, went missing on June 14, 1916
58.	Gyula Jakubovics	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 22	no information	22 years old	no information
59.	Pál Jónás	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	30 years old	no information
60.	Béla Kandra	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 12	no information	32 years old	no information
61.	György Kapusztej	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Dunkófalva	1887	According to a loss registry No. 256 issued on September 7, 1915, was captured by the Russians and internated to Moscow
62.	Gyula Kassay	infantryman	no information	no information	no information	no information
63.	József Kassay	infantryman	no information	no information	no information	no information
64.	Bertalan Kaszonyi	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	no information	According to the regiment report, went missing between May 11 and 13, 1915. Place and date of birth were not disclosed.
65.	Móricz Katz	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	31 years old	no information
66.	Ábrahám József Kaufman	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 85	no information	no information	According to the regiment report, died a heroic death due to a gunshot wound to the stomach on June 22,  1915 in Premyslben Place and date of birth were not disclosed.
67.	Dr. Miklós Kálmán	ensign	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1890	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died a heroic death due to a gunshot wound to the stomach on June 16, 1916, at Podhajce
68.	István Károlyi	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	no information	no information
69.	Lajos Kázmér	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	34 years old	no information
70.	Sándor Kecskés	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1889	no information
71.	István Kedvek	titularcorporal	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Budapest	1891	According to the regiment report, went missing on August 27,  1914
72.	noblemanIstván Kiss	first lieutenant	Infantry Regiment No. 25	Munkács (Mukachevo)	1890	According to the soldier’s death certificate,went missing on June 15,1918
73.	Jakab Klein	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Munkács (Mukachevo)	33 years old	no information
74.	Mózes Klein	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	24 years old	no information
75.	András Komár	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 9	Beregszász (Berehove)	1877	According to the regiment report,went missing on June 13,1916 at the Strypa
76.	József Komári	no information	no information	no information	no information	According to a Russian registry, died in captivity on October 3, 1915 in Tsehernikoffban. Place, date of birth, and regiment were not disclosed.
77.	Ferenc Kónya	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	37 years old	no information
78.	József Kormos	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	38 years old	no information
79.	György Korosztin	no information	no information	no information	48 years old	no information
80.	István Kosztyu	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Macsola	1893	no information
81.	József Kovács	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	40 years old	In the absence of further data, the identity cannot be established due to the widely used name.
82.	Lajos Kovács	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	40 years old	In the absence of further data, the identity cannot be established due to the widely used name.
83.	Pál Kovács	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1897	According to the regiment report,went missing on June 7, 1916 near Brovary
84.	Pál Kovács	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	21 years old	no information
85.	Sándor Kovács	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	25 years old	In the absence of further data, the identity cannot be established due to the widely used name.
86.	Kálmán Krajnik	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	30 years old	no information
87.	Pinkász Krepsz	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 37	no information	27 years old	no information
88.	József Kronémer	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	27 years old	no information
89.	Ferenc Kun	soldier	Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	no information	Identity cannot be established in the absence of place and year of birth.
90.	Péter Kurovszky	ensign	Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1894	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died on June 11, 1916[illegible handwriting]
91.	János Kustyán	hussar	Hussar Regiment No. 5	Beregszász (Berehove)	1897	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died a heroic death due to a gunshot to the head on November 1, at Nazgra
92.	István László	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1886	no information
93.	János Lipej	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1886	no information
94.	Bálint Lőrincz	corporal	Infantry Regiment No. 34	Beregszász (Berehove)	1890	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died on December 28, 1914 at Konstantinow
95.	Sándor Lőrincz	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 34	Beregszász (Berehove)	1897	no information
96.	Mózes Simon Lőwenvirth	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	33 years old	no information
97.	János Lukács	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Nagyhalas?	1892	According to a graveyard registry: No.10/8 on February 1, 1915
98.	Sándor Lukács	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	1895	no information
99.	József Markóczy	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	29 years old	no information
100.	Sándor Matavovszky	lieutenant	Army Infantry Regiment No. 7	Beregszász (Berehove)	1894	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died on the hills of[illegible handwriting] on August 10, 1917
101.	Ferenc Mácsai	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 301	Szentes	33 years old	According to a graveyard registry, died on September 14,  1915 and was buried in Kozlov
102.	István Mándy	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1881	no information
103.	József Máthé	soldier	ArmyInfantry Regiment No. 9	Beregszász (Berehove)	22 years old	no information
104.	József Mayer	no information	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1885	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died of sepsis due to a gunshot chest wound on May 26, 1915 at Nyitra-[…]
105.	Lajos Mészáros	infantryman	Army Infantry Regiment No. 34	no information	no information	According to the regiment report issued on January 5, 1915,went missing. Place and date of birth were not disclosed.
106.	Ágoston Mikó	infantryman	Army Infantry Regiment No. 5	[illegible handwriting]	1891	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died a heroic death due to an injury onOctober 29, 1914, at a hospital
107.	Bertalan Molnár	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1890	According to a Russian registry, died in captivity in Khabarovsk on September 9, 1915
108.	Ernő Molnár	lieutenant	Army Infantry Regiment No. 12	Nagykapos	1886	no information
109.	Bernát Nagy	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 91	no information	27 years old	no information
110.	Miklós Nagy	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	34 years old	no information
111.	Béla Németh	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1898	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died of tuberculosis on October 18, 1918 at the hospital of Sopron
112.	Ferenc Orgován	infantryman	no information	no information	30 years old	no information
113.	János Pancsira	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 66	Ófalu	1891	According to the regiment report, went missing between Jine 1 and 10, 1916 at Novosiolka
114.	Ferenc Papp	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 5	no information	36 years old	In the absence of further data, the identity cannot be established due to the widely used name.
115.	Miklós Papp	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	37 years old	no information
116.	Pál Papp	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1894	According to the loss registry No. 321 died on October 12, 1915
117.	Sándor Pál	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 34	Beregszász (Berehove)	1892	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died of tuberculosis on April 9, 1918 at the hospital of Nagyvárad
118.	Lajos Pobránszki	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1878	According to the loss registry No. 659 issued on April 4, 1918, was captured by Russians and internated to Pensa
119.	János Popovics	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	55 years old	no information
120.	János Popovics	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	35 years old	no information
121.	Mihály Popovics	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	25 years old	no information
122.	Ferenc Preznánszki	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 34	Beregszász (Berehove)	1896	According to the loss registry No. 690. and the graveyard registry, died on March 8, 1918 at the epidemiology hospital of Lviv
123.	Sándor Preznánszky	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1892	no information
124.	József Rácz	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1891	According to the regiment report,went missing in December of1914
125.	Mózes Reisz	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	25 years old	no information
126.	Ignác Reiter	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	24 years old	no information
127.	János Riskó	soldier	ArmyInfantry Regiment No. 11	no information	41 years old	no information
128.	János Roják	hussar	Hussar Regiment No. 15	Szatmárnémeti	1885	According to the regiment report,went missing on May 10, 1915 at Rakowiec
129.	József Károly Rottenstein	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1892	According to the loss registry No. 346 and a Russian listing, dies of tuberculosis on January 1, 1915 in captivity in Krasnoyarsk
130.	Lajos Rosenfeld	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1895	According to the regiment report,went missingbetween July 6 and 8, 1917 at Jamnica
131.	Béla Sárközy	határvadász	no information	Muzsaly	1878	no information
132.	András Simon	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1889	According to a graveyard registry, died in combat on July 28, 1915 in the battle at Koremiercy
133.	István Simon	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Munkács (Mukachevo)	1883	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died od September 1, 1915 at  Skomoroczky
134.	Sándor Simon	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Tiszakóród	1887	no information
135.	Sándor Simon	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Barabás	1878	no information
136.	Péter Siró	soldier	Artillery Regiment No. 139	Budapest	1899	According to na Italian registry, died on November 21, 1918in Italian captivity and was buried in Brenoban
137.	András Seres	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	34 years old	no information
138.	István Skiza	lance-corporal	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1892	According to a graveyard registry, died between July 1 and 15, 1916 at Fazlovice
139.	Miklós Skiza	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	no information	According to the loss registry No. 212, died between May 9 and 13, 1915 Place and date of birth were not disclosed.
140.	Mózes Slomovics	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 12	Tiszakarácsonyfalva	1870	no information
141.	Ferenc Szabó	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregzsász (Berehove)	1891	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died a heroic death due to an injury on May 24,  1915 at Kolmyya
142.	István Szabó	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 39	no information	38 years old	In the absence of further data, the identity cannot be established due to the widely used name
143.	Sándor Szarka	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1886	According the soldier’s death certificateand a graveyard registry, died a heroic death of a gunshot injury to the neck on September 16, 1914 at the hospital ofSátoraljaújhely
144.	Lajos Szappanos	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 10	Szomotor	1887	According to the regiment report, died on August 27, 1914
145.	Vendel Szentgróti	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	55 years old	no information
146.	Pál Szentléleki	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1891	Went missing according to the regiment report received on January 28,1918
147.	Ferenc Szilágyi	cadet	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	registered in Beregszász (Berehove)	no information	According to the graveyard registry, died in the battle at[…] on August 5, 1915
148.	Bertalan Szücs	soldier	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1873	According to the regiment report,went missing on December 31,1916 […].
149.	István Tamási	infantryman	no information	no information	no information	In the absence of data, the identity cannot be established
150.	József Tépli	corporal	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1876	According to the regiment report received on February 22, 1915, he went missing.
151.	András Tóth	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1876	According to the regiment report received on February 22, 1915, he went missing.
152.	János Cs. Tóth	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1882	no information
153.	István Varga	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1896	According to the loss registry No. 545 issued on April 3, 1917, was captured by the Russians and internated Novosilsk
154.	József Varga	no information	no information	no information	31 years old	In the absence of data, the identity cannot be established
155.	András Vass	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregkisfalu	1887	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died of tuberculosis on June 16, 1916 at the hospital of Nagyvárad
156.	György Vaskó	lance-corporal	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1890	According to a graveyard registry, died on the northern battlefield on March 11, 1915
157.	Mihály Vasvári	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	23 years old	no information
158.	Konrád Vaszuta	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1897	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died on april 14, 1916 at Boromiany
159.	András Ványi	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 3/II	no information	1898	no information
160.	József Végh	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	43 years old	no information
161.	János Volf	hunter	Camp Hunter Battalion No. 15	Beregszász (Berehove)	1890	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died a heroic death due to a gunshot head injury on October 19, 1916 at the hospital of Hrodna
162.	Pál Bani	corporal	Infantry Regiment No. 8/6	Nagykároly	1877	no information
163.	István Cselle	lance-corporal	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	42 years old	no information
164.	Sándor Draveczky	sergeant	Army Infantry Regiment No. 4	Beregszász (Berehove)	1874	According to the soldier’s death certificate, died of an injury on August 31, 1916 at Zarocze
165.	Dezső Egyes	lance-corporal	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Csetfalva	1894	no information
166.	Imre Gáthy	no information	no information	no information	1882	no information
167.	Bertalan Kaszonyi	corporal	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Mezővári	1890	no information
168.	Gyula Lakatos	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	no information	no information	According to a graveyard registry, died on March 17, 1915. Place and date of birth were not disclosed.
169.	József Máté	border hunter	Border Hunter Batalion No. 24	no information	34 years old	Bled out due to an injury caused by a grenade on July 21, 1940. Place of birth was not disclosed.
170.	József Miklósi	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1890	no information
171.	Bertalan Nagy	no information	no information	Beregszász (Berehove)	1890	no information
172.	Gusztáv Nagy	hunter	Camp Hunter Battalion No. 29	Beregszász (Berehove)	1896	According to the regiment report, went missing on June 17,  1916
173.	Kálmán Paksy	ensign	Army Infantry Regiment No. 11	no information	no information	According to a graveyard registry,went missing on June 17,1916
174.	Bertalan Pálóczi	artilleryman	Artillery Regiment No. 18	Beregszász (Berehove)	1893	According to a hospital report, died of tuberculosis on April 12, 1918 at the hospital of Beregszász
175.	Ignác Spitz	infantryman	Infantry Regiment No. 65	Beregszász (Berehove)	1898	no information
176.	Márton Szircsák	lance-corporal	ArmyInfantry Regiment No. 11	Beregszász (Berehove)	1897	According to a graveyard registry, died between July 1 and 10, 1916 at Koropiecz

Imre Szakál

Sources and literature

Sources

State Archive of Transcarpathian Oblast (Державний архів Закарпатської області)

Fond 67. – The Documents of the Mayor of the Town of Berehovo (Берегівський бургомістр, м. Берегово, Бережської жупи, 1938-1944)

Fond 108. – Berehovo Town Notary Office (Берегівське міське нотарське управління, м. Берегове, 1919 – 1939)

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Csanádi György: Sorsfordító évek sodrásában. Fejezetek Beregvidék történelmi múltjából. (The twists and turns of destiny. Chapters from the historical past of Bereg district) PoliPrint, Ungvár, 2004.

Csatáry György: Beregszász első köztéri emlékműve (The first public monument of Beregszász) In: Pánsíp 1994/4.

Fedinec Csilla – Csernicskó István: Az Ukrajnából száműzött Lenin. Európai út a kommunizmus öröksége nélkül? (Lenin exiled from Ukraine. A European way without the legacy of communism?) In: REGIO 2016.

Pierre Nora: Emlékezet és történelem között. Válogatott tanulmányok (Between memory and history. Selected studies), Napvilág Kiadó, Budapest, 2010.

Somfay Örs: Az I. világháború magyar vonatkozású köztéri, valamint közösségi hősi emlékei és ezek adatbázisa. (Hungarian-related public and community heroic relics of World War I and their database) Doktori értekezés, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Bölcsészettudományi Kar Történelemtudományi Doktori Iskola Gazdaság-, régió- és politikatörténeti műhely, Budapest, 2012.

Suslik Ádám: Az északkeleti vármegyék veszteségei az első világháborúban a cs. és kir., valamint a honvéd gyalogos ezredek adatai alapján 1914-1915 között (The losses of the northeastern counties in the First World War on the basis of the data of theimperial and royal army infantry regiments between 1914-1915) In: Peter Konya (szerk.) PRVÁ SVETOVÁ VOJNA V KARPATOCH – ELSŐ VILÁGHABORÚ A KÁRPÁTOKBAN – ПЕРША СВІТОВА ВІЙНА В КАРПАТАХ, Presov: Prešov University, 2016.

Zeidler Miklós: A magyar irredenta kultusz a két világháború között. (The Hungarian irredentistcult between the two world wars) Teleki László Alapítvány, Budapest, 2002.