S. Perémi Ágota (szerk.): A Laczkó Dezső Múzeum közleményei 29. (Veszprém, 2019)

Rainer Pál: "Az a kép a battallionunk halottainak a temetője. Lehet hogy még az én helyem is ott van" Neuperger Ferenc, szentbélkállai 48-as közös baka levelei az I. világháborúból

„This picture (photo) is of the cemetery of the deceased of our battalion.

Perhaps my place is there too”

Letters from Ferenc Neuperger, infantryman from the 48th regiment of Szentbékkála from the First World-War

This study describes Ferenc Neuperger’s, one of the WWI soldier’s letters from Szentbekkalla (then of Zala, currently of Veszprém county) sent home to his family (his mother and siblings). The letters were written on the reverse side of the photographs. The series of letters comprise 16 pieces: 8 were written from the Romanian (Transylvanian) front (January 1917 — September 1917), and 8 from the Italian front (1917 — 1918, many undated). The letter-writers family was one of the wealthier farming and wine-making families in the village on the Balaton-Highland. Ferenc Neuperger (1896 - unknown, he was still alive in 1948) and his elder brother Lajos (1891 — 1958) both lived the life of a farmer. Their younger brother, Imre (1902-1959) became a Roman Catholic priest; he had bestowed the photocards to Veszprém museum in 1917 and

1918 whilst he was still studying as a secondary school student.

Ferenc Neuperger served as a private in the 48th royal and imperial infantry regiment. His regiment was formed in 1798 and took part in all the military campaigns of the Habsburg, then Austro-Hungarian monarchy until 1918. Their memory is preserved by a plaque in Nagykanizsa, in their Roman Catholic parish church and their former barracks, and a monument at the main square of Nagykanizsa, made by sculptor, Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl. A list of (incomplete) names of those deceased in WWI from Szentbékkálla be read on a plaque from 1938 on the side of the local Roman Catholic church. The correspondence made public now brings closer the milieu of the everyday life of these soldiers during the Great War.

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