Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

■ The plaque of "Charlei, the Hunter"

^^Sbben a hóéban lakott 1879 — tól^ I id92 “ben bekövetkezett haláláig.

A nagy idők legendás alakja.

LEB STÜCK MÁRIA

Ahia szabadságharcunkban előbb, mint a tiroli légió vadásza ma/d.mmt honvédhvszar~ hadiragg es főhadnagy vitézül küzdött a hazáért. Állította Újpest város közössége —, i935 év március l5~en. ^

uniform once again, but now for a short time only, as at Dorozsma she tied the knot before an army chaplain with a Captain Jónák, an artillery commander with whom she had fought under Buda. She was taken prisoner of war at Arad, but due to her pregnancy she was allowed to spend her captivity in private lodgings under house arrest.

She was a personal acquaintance of Mór Jókai's, who commemorated her figure in his piece entitled The Lady Lieutenant in the year of Máriás death in 1892. Next year the journal Történelmi Lapok (The Historical Courier) called for the erection of her statue. Although the initiative failed, the municipality of Újpest, where Lebstück lived with her son and died in poverty, granted an honorary grave to the mortal remains of "Riflewoman Károly’’. Her second husband, the painter Gyula Pasch (Pasche), was also a former officer in the Hungarian liberation army, and, what is more, had also served with the Tirol Riflemen.

Mária Lebstück’s memorial plaque was ceremonially unveiled in Újpest on 15 March 1935, on the wall of her former house at 4 Csokonai utca, District IV. The hussar shako and sword in the relief are surrounded by a wreath and some

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