Bulgarian medics?

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Hello,

some months ago I obtained two photos that seemed to show Bulgarians soldiers. First I thought the men were wearing uniforms of the Bulgarian airforce but the shoulder boards don't fit for that. After looking around on http://www.lostbulgaria.com I'm now under the imression that they must be Bulgarian medics or members of the Bulgarian Red Cross. Bulgaria operated a military hospital in Legionovo (NW of Warsaw) and there was one or several Bulgarian hospital trains carrying wounded German soldiers from the Eastern front to Legionovo.

Can someone confirm these are Bulgarian medics?

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Here's the second photo showing one of the Bulgarians with his German fiancee. (At least that was the story the seller told me but it could just have been one of the usual Ebay sales phantasies as well.)




Zoom of the insignia on his uniform. What rank does he have?

Bulgarians 2 - Zoom.jpg

Backside of the portrait with the stamp of a photo studio.

Bulgarians 2 - Back.jpg

Zoom of the sudio stamp.
Fot. ST..........OZOWSKI
MARSZAŁKOW...A 129 TEL. ???-4?

Bulgarians 2 - Back Zoom.jpg

Probably that refers to Marszałkowska Street in Warsaw, an important road in the city centre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsza%C5% ... et,_Warsaw).
From around 1900 to the 1930s there was a photo studio Bernardi in Warsaw's Marszałkowska Street 129 (http://www.warszawa.ap.gov.pl/pub/Wykonywa_sie.pdf, p.11). Later the studio must have had another owner but remained in operation till 1944. One of the officers in the 1944 Warsaw uprising, Eugeniusz Lokajski, was killed by an artillery barrage in the studio on Sept. 25th, 1944 when he tried to salvage photo equipment there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugeniusz_Lokajski).

Best regards
Torsten

[vonschell]

These soldiers are members of the Bulgarian Red Cross. Indeed, they serve in a hospital train on the Eastern Front.

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Bonsoir vonschell,

many thanks for your confirmation.

Best regards
Torsten