Searching for grave place in Ivanigrad

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Searching for grave place in Ivanigrad

OdgovorNapisal/-a Stanislav Brabec » 18.11.2009 09:46:53

Hallo.

I am searching for the grave place of my grand-uncle. Many thanks in advance for any information that can help in the search.

Here is everything I know from the register:

Name: Josef Bašta (Bašta is surname)

Born: February 4, 1898, living in Mláka (near Třeboň), now in Czech Republic

Falled: August 26, 1917, buried in Ivanigrad (Ivanji Grad?)

9th regiment of Austro-Hungarian field artillery

Nationality: Czech

According to rumour he did not fall in the fight, but he and several other soldiers were killed by a bomb that exploded directly on the table they were sitting at.
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OdgovorNapisal/-a yurko » 25.11.2009 11:42:03

Hi,

your ancestor is with no doubts buried in military cemetery in Gorjansko.
Exact grave will be difficult or impossible to find, but i'm trying to dig out some useful information.
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OdgovorNapisal/-a Stanislav Brabec » 25.11.2009 12:26:07

yurko napisal/-a:your ancestor is with no doubts buried in military cemetery in Gorjansko.

I was thinking so. It is the nearest military cemetry. And I read that original graves around were moved to Gorjansko after the war.

yurko napisal/-a:Exact grave will be difficult or impossible to find, but i'm trying to dig out some useful information

I digged all photos I was able to find with no success. But there are thousands graves and some gravestones are broken or unreadable 92 years later.

Anyway, thanks for your effort.
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Re: Searching for grave place in Ivanigrad

OdgovorNapisal/-a Stanislav Brabec » 08.06.2024 21:45:14

I just consulted my issue with Mihael Uršič from Pot Miru. He confirmed that he was buried in Ivanji Grad N°8a. He was buried in grave N°227 with three other soldiers (all of them members of FKR 9): Weikert Kurt, Homolka Franz, Humler Josef. He even found the evidence sheet. Then his history ends. All three other soldiers were exhumed and moved to Gorjansko, so very probably also my grand uncle was moved there. But documentation is missing. Most probably he was exhumed and relocated to Gorjansko together with them. Maybe they lost documentation and buried him among the other unknown soldiers in Gorjansko. Maybe Italians moved him to Redipuglia, mistakenly considering that Basta was an Italian soldier (but it seems improbable, as there is no name Josef or Giuseppe Basta in the documents).

Never mind, Gorjansko seems to be the most probable location.

I was in Gorjansko military cemetery last Sunday. Most graves there have no inscription on tombstones, so I consider finding a right grave as impossible for any of these versions. (It even seems that the tombstones were removed from the most graves.)

Anyway, I guess we've resolved the generational trauma. The great-grandmother never found out where her son's grave was. I found the probable location of his grave, and I was able to visit it.
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