A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 44. (2005)

Tarczai Béla: A 10-es honvéd hagyományok őrzése Miskolcon

IRODALOM Dobrossy István 1997 Miskolc írásban és képekben. 4. kötet. 185. Miskolc Gulya István 2000 A Miskolci 10-es honvéd múzeum. HOMÉvk. XXXIX. Hadifogoly Híradó 2005 2. és 4. szám, Budapest Markó Árpád 1943 Magyarország hadtörténete. Budapest Sassy Csaba 1939 10-es honvéd emlékalbum. Miskolc PRESERVING THE TRADITIONS OF THE TENTH HONVÉD REGIMENT One of the famed units of the Hungárián Royal Army, crcated after the Compromise of 1867, was the regiment set up in Miskolc, which fought on the Galician, the Transylvanian and the Italian front during World War 1. The troops participated in the Battle of Limanowa-Jabloniec in Galícia and successfully chased the beaten Russians northwards. In March 1917, the soldicrs excelled in the recapture of Mt. Aranyos in Transylvania. The troops alsó fought valiantly in Italy, where they were taken prisoner after the armistice. Beginning with 1922, the surviving comrades met every year to remember their fallen companions and to evoke the battles they fought together. This tradition became an important social event in Miskolc. The survivors wanted not only to remember, but alsó to preserve their memories for posterity. They wrote memoirs, which they published in their own Journal. A book recounting the history of the regiment was published in 1939. In 1926, a fund was set up for raising a memóriái statue; a year later, enough money had been collected to erect the statue. A memóriái plaque was set on the wall of the one-time barracks in 1928; a military museum was opcned in 1929; the embroiderers of Mezőkövesd donated a flag in 1934; a lavishly illustrated album was published in 1939. World War 2 and the cnsuing decades brought a setback in these meetings. The ranks of the war generation too decreased. The tradition of remembrance was revivcd in 2001 by a commission förmed on the initiative of the Association of Former POWs, which has since then organised an annual memóriái and wreathing ceremony on the traditional regiment day. They began the collection of former memorabilia, rcplaced the memóriái plaque, which disappeared after the war, and have spared no effort in imbuing the town's youth with a patriotic spirit in co-operation with the Herman Ottó Gymnasium, which inherited the museum building. The study ends with the evocation of the events on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Limanowa and the Battle of Gorlice. Béla Tarczai 374