Dirty yellow Euphrates water

It is December 1915. A battalion of Royal Bavarian Artillery Regiment 1 is taken out of the fierce fighting on the Western Front in Flanders and sent on its way to Turkey. From there, the book accompanies the soldiers on their very varied and exciting journey across Southwestern Europe, the Ottoman Empire to Kut, south of Baghdad. It consists of contributions from diaries by unit soldiers, unity documents and staffs. The soldiers repeatedly encounter the fate of the Armenian population and record it in their journals. The many pictures in which he recorded the mission come from the estate of ZahlmeisterJosef Oberndorfner.

The book documents the military, economic, social and cultural conditions within the unit and with its environment. Interested family researchers can find links to lists of unitary members from Bavaria, Germany and Turkey as well as the signatures of the documents used in Department 4 of the Munich State Archives (War Archive), as well as the maps from the Munich State Library. An extensive list of literature on the topic supplements the documentation. Most of the literature can also be viewed in the Bavarian State Library.

About the author

Michael Josef Oberndorfner deals with military-historical topics. It helps him that he can look back on 50 years of experience as a soldier and in defense technology. The topics have always been related to his family and his books have been enriched by pictures from his archive. So far, he has published a previous version of the book “Dirty Yellow Euphrates Water” under the title “Die Mission des IV.Btl. I. bay. Fußart. Rgt. in Iraq - Volume 1 December 1915 to April 8, 1916 - Volume 2 April 1916 to December 1916” and the description of the work of his great-grandmother and great-aunt in mountain huts in the foothills of the Alps in the period 1907 to 1934 with the title “Can you need green peas? “published.

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