The recently discovered remains of a Hungarian Honvéd of WWI have been reburied in Poland

The Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Defence Mr. Szilárd Németh and the Commandant of the MoD Military History Institute and Museum (MHIM) Colonel Dr. Vilmos Kovács participated in the ceremony.

The human remains, a Hungarian military belt buckle as well as uniform, shoe and weapon pieces were discovered last April in a Hnatkowice field. The authorities also found an ID card holder during the exhumation process, but the card in the holder containing personal data rotted, so the Honvéd could not be identified.

The soldier might have served in the 23rd Infantry Regiment of the Austrian-Hungarian Army, which stationed in the fortress of the nearby town of Przemyśl. About 190 soldiers of the Austrian-Hungarian Army rest in the Hnatkowice Graveyard.

Przemyśl, located on the Polish-Ukrainian border, had a prominent role in the defence system of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy. The system of fortifications established at the end of the 19th century had been the third greatest at that time in Europe. The Hungarian units fighting in the Monarchy’s Army had withstood the attacks of the Russian troops for months at this place.

In the main temple of the village of Wolomin near to Warsaw, Mr. Szilárd Németh receives the decoration “Keep Conquering the Evil with the Good" on Thursday night from the Blessed Fr Jerzy Popiełuszko Remembrance Committee for spreading in Hungary the spirit and memory of the Martyr Priest, who had been brutally murdered by the Communist Secret Service.

Mr. Pál Illés, the First Secretary of the Hungarian Embassy in Warsaw told the MTI, that the honorary certificate awarded along with the plaque was signed by President of the Polish Government Party, Mr. Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński, Minister of National Defence Mr. Mariusz Błaszczak, and Polish Solidarity President Mr. Piotr Duda – from among the members of the Committee.