'>>16591728
My great grandpa fought as an artilleryman in the Caucasus in WW1. I don’t have any photos of him, though.';

'>>16591728
My family's more clerics and bureaucrats, but I guess there's the one big one 1400 years ago.
>>16591734
Which side?';

'>>16591728

>Iraq War (United States)
>War in Afghanistan (United States)
>Persian Gulf War (United States)
>US invasion of Panama (United States)
>Vietnam War (United States)
>Korean War (United States)
>World War II (United States)
>American Civil War (Confederate States)
>Texas Revolution (Republic of Texas)
>Indian Wars (both sides)
>American Revolutionary War (United States)
>Seven Years' War (Great Britain)
>English Civil War (Covenanters/Parliamentarians)
>French Wars of Religion (Huguenots)
>First War of Scottish Independence (Scots)
>Crusades (possibly)

That's my family's military record.';

'>>16591748
Screw that, which prominent American figures are you related to?';

'>>16591743
Central Powers';

'>>16591748
You could trace your ancestry back almost 1000 years ago? You should consider yourself lucky. All I really know about my ancestry is that they were peasant farmers and around 150 years ago they built one of their houses entirely by hand, which is still standing today.

>Indian Wars (both sides)
If you have more information on this, I'll like to know. What tribe did your ancestor fight for and why did they fight for them?';

'>>16591728
my great grandfather and his brother at the Somme. former was a brigadier-general, latter was the battalion chaplain';

'>>16591777
forgot pic lol';

'>>16591728
Not a major war, but my great grandfather fought in the Chaco War on the side of the Paraguayans';

'Captain Nicholas Wunder. Born in Fernheim, Germany on February 28, 1830. Served in the German Army before immigrating to the United States and serving in the Civil War. Fought at the Battle of Bull Run. Died in Passaic, NJ in 1910. I wish I had a photo or something';

'>>16591793
I should also mention that this was for the Union';

'>>16591752

>Pierre Bacot (helped found the colony of South Carolina)
>some member of the South Carolina delegation who signed the Declaration of Independence (I forgot which one)
>John Ross (Chief of the Cherokee)
>Cynthia Ann Parker (Indian abductee and mother of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker)
>one of the governors of the Oklahoma Territory prior to statehood
>Harry Truman (indirectly)

>>16591772
>You could trace your ancestry back almost 1000 years ago?

I know I'm descended from one of the clans that fought for Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn yeah. My knowledge beyond that is pretty limited though.

>What tribe did your ancestor fight for and why did they fight for them?

Cherokee, who fought a series of on-and-off wars against settlers in modern Georgia and the Carolina from the 1760s until 1790 with later less-organized armed resistance to their removal in the 1820s (I'm not a descendant of any of those to my knowledge because they're in North Carolina and my family's Native ancestry mostly originates from Oklahoma). Later the Cherokee later largely fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War due their being slaveholders/still being angry over the Trail of Tears 30 years' prior.';

'>>16591728
I have an old relative (idk if he would be an uncle, cousin, or even a great whatever grandfather) that fought in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. I think he was serving for Arkansas even though I’m not positive.

Also I have a cousin in the Navy right now that will be serving in WW3 the way the world is going right now lol';

'>>16591728
my maternal grandfather fought in WWII, and survived.
one of my great-uncles fought and died in WWII.
my maternal+maternal grandfather fought and died in WWI.
no family recollections before that.';

'My great-grandfather was a pole consctripted into the german army during ww1. He fought at the battle of Verdun but was wounded and sent back home. During ww2 he was spared of being taken into the polish army because he became a single father by then. He had some german medal of honour or something like that for participating in the war and the nazi soldiers spared his shop during raids.

My other great-grandfather was a cavarlyman in the polish army (ułan) but i have no idea if or where he fought. His son (my pa) participated in strikes against the commie rule in Poland tho.';

'>>16591728
> Great grandfather In WW2 as a Partisan in Albania
>The other Great grandfather of Mine on the eastern Front in WW2 where He died near Riga';

'>>16591728
My Romanian immigrant great great Grand-pop served in the U.S Army during WW1 and thats about it, my maternal grandfather(son of the ww1 dude) just sold machinery/machine parts in Macau and Hong Kong, every one in my father's side were sleazy businessmen property management types who go back to being Tennessee plantation owners and only a few of their family members even fought in the civil war that was basically about them. So most of my family just barely squeaked by conflicts while running to the new entrepreneurial angle.';

'>>16591728
Grandpa in ww2, at least one great grandpa in ww1';

'>>16591728
Great grandpa on my grandmas side fought in the Pacific theater in WW2. My other great grandfather wasn't involved because he had a vision problem that wasn't up to standards.';

'>>16591728
Paternal Great Great Great Great Grandfather fought for the Union during the Civil War. He was in his mid Forties and joined well past the normal enlistment age out of loyalty to Lincoln. My family actually still has his Lincoln campaign lapel pin. He fought in the 35th New York Infantry as a Sergeant. He was at Fredericksburg (though not heavily engaged), 2nd Bull Run, and Antietam. He was discharged before Gettysburg and then reenlisted. He lost an arm and was captured at Cold Harbor. Spent four months in Libby prison outside Richmond before being paroled.

My Maternal great grandmother was a Stuart and not too distantly related to JEB Stuart. It's not direct but I do have some common family with him.

One of my Great uncles (My dad's grandfather's brother) fought in WWI and lost his hearing to a grenade in the Ardennes. My Dad talks about having to shout around him to tell him anything.

My Maternal great grandfather was in WW2 but I don't know the specifics, he died very young (cancer) and great grandma did not want to talk about him.

My paternal grandfather joined the Coast guard to avoid Vietnam, but was briefly posted on a PT boat outside Saigon for a 6 month tour. He never saw any action and mostly just sat around bored to tears for those 6 months.

Not sure if counts but my Dad was on a fast attack nuclear sub during the later years of the cold war. They did all kinds of classified espionage shit that he can't talk about. I've gathered a lot of it was wiretapping and track Russian vessels and such over the years.';

'>>16591728
My grandfather was in north africa and italy during ww2';

'Great grandfather came from Karelia. My grandmother was evacuated to Sweden when she was just 10 years old while her dad and mother stayed behind. He was a pilot in the finnish military. Not sure if he had a combat role, I heard he was a courier but flew dangerous mission.

I used to hear stories how he was a dreadful alcoholic. Everyone thought he would drink himself to death. Then the Russians invaded and he didnt touch a bottle for the entire war.
When the war ended he began drinking again and died shortly after from alcohol poisoning.
My grandmother got alzeimers during her last years and began getting heavy ptsd from her childhood. While she could no longer remember who we were (her family), she began to remember everything from that year when the war came';

'>>16592691
I think what I wanted to highlight about his drinking was that the war strangely gave him life and kept him alive.

Also, for any ww2 fan, who wants to watch an authentic ww2 movie from a different perspective other than American, I highly recommend the movie Unknown Soldier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYesNj_sBg';

'>>16591728
Grandfathers fought in WW2. One of my great grandfathers definitely fought in WW1. One or another of my ancestors definitely fought for both sides in the Franco Prussian War; I'm not sure how he did that.';

'>>16591728
Both sides of my great-grandfathers fought in WWII in Finland.';

'>>16591728
Not me. All of my ancestors missed every single war. Just stayed in the shitter until it all blew over. The Hundred Years' War was a particularly tough time for my people.';

'>>16592698
>>16592691
This sounds little bit like the "Marokon kauhu" Aarne Juutilainen. I think he also had quite rough civilian life before and after the wars. But he did drink in service, too.';

'>>16592699
If he was from a disputed/border region (Alsace-Lorraine for example) it's very possible that he got pressed into service by one side, went home, then got pressed into service by the other. That kind of thing is super common in wars where a apefici piece of disputed territory switches sides frequently.

In the ACW for example there were a fair number of guys who served both North and South because the "recruiters" don't give a fuck about your personal beliefs or past service with the enemy as long as you can still shoot straight.';

'>>16592868
Poland. Again I have no idea.';

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'>>16591728
The Vietnam War, U.S. Civil War (both sides), War of 1812, American Revolutionary War, and Lord Dunmore's War are the ones I know for sure. Farther back, there were probably some involved in a few the various German chimpouts of the Early Modern Period. Possibly also the Wars of Scottish Independence.';

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'>>16591728
Supposedly I have a great uncle that fought in the Mexican revolution against the government in north west Mexico.

My older extended family has at least one picture of him with other fighters with a Mauser and bullet belts.

I imagine something like pic related.';

'That’s a bit jewy';

'>>16591728
G-G-Grandfather in the American Civil War. (Union) Heavy artillery but not a lot of action AFAIK.
Several American Revolution vets from what I can trace, assuming that's accurate. Same for some stuff from King Phillip's War.

Hit some apparent royal lines and those go all the way back to Charlemagne, with a lot of the attendant battles in between, but practically everyone in the thread has those if you go back far enough whether they can prove them or not.';

'My great grandpa married into a real American military family';

'I have a grandfather who was called into service in the last year of ww2 as part of the "Volkssturm".';

'>>16591728
One great grandpa drove tanks with Rommel. Another one was on the Geisenau.

I can trace one line back to ~1500, but i havent checked for any involvement,';

'>>16591728
I have one two who were in the US army in WW2.
One ancestor served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in ww1, not quite fighting but he was too old to fight at that point.
Another ancestor was drafted into the Canadian Army to fight in WW1, but the war ended just a country or months after he got drafted—pretty lucky.
One ancestor might have served in the Napoleonic Wars as a British soldier in the 81st Foot—my evidence for this is circumstantial.
Another ancestor might have served in the 2nd Regiment of Foot Guards in the Seven Years’ war, and was possibly injured—my evidence for this is circumstantial. But one was from Massachusetts and fought in the “French and Indian War” of the same conflict. By family tradition, another one was a Grenadier captain from Britain who was wounded and left to settle in Pennsylvania (I don’t know if I believe that).
One ancestor was the leader of a “Ranger” regiment in New England, leading them in King George’s War.
A few were involved in King Phillip’s War. A couple were killed by injuns. One was the leader of a militia company, but eas really old and it’s unclear whether he lead them during battle. He was definitely in charge of training them before the war and marched off with them.
Two more, by family tradition, fought in the English civil war. One was supposedly a captain in the new model army and was present at the Battle of Naseby. Another was supposedly a Scottish Covenanter captured and sent to America after the Battle of Dunbar. (The truth of this is tentative).
8 Ancestors fought in the American Revolution. Most of them were unremarkable, except one who was supposedly the Captain of the 6th Regiment of the Duchess County Militia, Pennsylvania.
>How do you know all of this?
Records and compiled genealogical research by places like the New England Historic Genealogical Society.';

'>>16591728
Granddad on mom's side was a Mafia man and a signalman during the Pacific Theater in WWII, told my grandma stories about how the Japs would cut out the intestines of downed fighter pilots and spool them out while they screamed so the GIs in their holes could hear them. Tough dude, though I never really met him.

When he died she remarried another guy who served with distinction in the Battle of the Bulge earned a Silver Star and a few other commendations for bravery under fire, I don't remember what unit though. I stayed with them in Florida for a bit and got to see his honors ceremony when he died.

My parents divorced and my dad's second wife had a German grandma. One day he told me that her first husband was in the 6th Army. He eventually got deployed to Stalingrad and was caught in the Kessel. He wasn't seen again. Her brother pushed the buttons on the V2 rockets and was terrified they were going to execute his ass for war crimes, but he got Paperclip'd instead. Her sister had 8 kids, and got a medal from Hitler for providing children for the war effort, but she didn't accept it because she thought Adolf was going to lead Germany to ruin. Guess she was right.';

'>>16591728
WW II
Vietnam';

'>>16591728
I am a descendant of a participant of the Boston Tea Party and the Revolutionary War as a artillery Colonel, a naval officer in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, several Civil War officers including a general, and a Staff Sergeant in the US Army during WW2. My family has a long history of licking boots and serving our senatorial masters well, and being injured in the line of duty doing so.';

'Great great grandfather was an officer and served in Egypt and India dealing with bandits before ww1. The locals apparently assisted them by building a rope bridge so it does not seem as though he was doing anything sordid. When the war broke out he trained volunteers and was sent to the trenches, he blew the whistle, climbed the ladder and was immediately shot in the head. Great grandfather was a policeman and told he'd serve the war effort better by remaining in that capacity.';

'>>16591748
thats very a very impressive family anon';

'>>16591728
Do the Cola Wars count?';

'>>16591728
>Who on here has an ancestor that has fought in any major war in history?

My Polish paternal grandfather was an infantryman in the Austro-Hungarian army during WWI while my Polish maternal grandfather was in the Imperial Russian horse artillery, they would both later serve in the Polish army during the Polish-Soviet War.

My dad was 16 in 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland he tried to escape three times to join the Polish Army in Exile in the west; the first time the Germans caught him they sent him back home, the second time the Germans caught him they beat his ass (broke several ribs) and sent him back home, the third time the Germans caught him they beat his ass and shipped him off to Austria as forced labor and he barely survived a prison-labor camp before being assigned as a laborer on a farm, where he knocked up the farmer's daughter and had a kid with her, was forced into a shotgun wedding and in early 1945, ran off and made his way into Italy right when the war ended.';

'>>16591728
A distant ancestor was a marine officer in the royal Dutch navy';

'>>16591728
>Great grandfather
Was in Pacific War for USA. Specifically fought in Philippines that I know of. Cleared out tunnels n shit.
>William Tecumseh Sherman was Ancestor or at Least the Sherman family
Pretty cool and is on my grandmothers side. Idk how direct but we have ties to the Sherman family, specifically my grandmother mentions William.';

'>>16596392
Oh and then my great grandfather earned bronze star and purple heart. Brought home trinkets too which is pretty cool and photos. Sadly can't find them. Mom said their was some pretty fucked up shit in it.';

'>>16591748
Anything past 1500 is a LARP unless you actually have royal blood';

'>great-uncle was a Soviet WW2 fighter pilot
>survived the war without a scratch
>died in a test flight like 1 month after the war ended
Life really is like that sometimes.';

'>maternal grandfather: Wehrmacht radio operator deployed on several places on the Eastern Front
>paternal great-grandfather: volunteered in September 1939 to fight against Poland, became part of the Siege of Leningrad
>paternal great-uncle: MIA in Italy in 1944
>paternal great-great-grandfather: WWI volunteer
>maternal great-grandfather: WWI volunteer
>paternal great-great-[....]-grandfather was a Prussian cavalryman at the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866.';

'>>16596450
The thing is, everyone has royal blood from the medieval ages. It’s just a question of whether you can find records proving your link/descent. I’m not that anon and I’ve tentatively done so, but none of my links are 100% proven because records get dodgy here and there. For instance, I 100% have one ancestor who graduated from Cambridge with a masters in the 1500s and came from a low level noble family, but there’s a point where one of his grandparents has two competing theories for her parentage, and one eventually links to Llywelyn the Great and John I. I have 10 potential links of varying degrees of reliability, and one of them is bound to be However, for most people like me, it’s wishful thinking to say you have a 100% link unless your ancestor is on a list like this by Douglas Richardson:
https://www.charlemagne.org/PA.pdf
I think if we could know with complete certainty every single ancestry for every European, then they’d all be direct ancestors of at least one king from 700-800 years ago.';

'>>16591748';

'>>16591728
A great-great uncle fought in WWI, but only lasted three days on the front line before being taken out, by either sniper fire or artillery.';

'datamining thread';

'>>16596450
Everyone is descended from nobility, the nobility that didn't inherit became just wealthy upper class people then just people. It's proven that every European alive today is a descendent of Charlemagne (this is not just a mathematical Theorem, I have never failed to trace any European back to him through online geneology databanks etc.).

That's why people that talk about how "most of ancestors were peasants" are just weak minded and the type of normie afraid of competition. People that talk about their noble lines are strong minded.

It's all the same blood and genetic potential, but some people choose to focus on demoralisation, others aspire to more and focus on our greatness.';

'My great uncle fought in WW2 and the Spanish Civil War.';

'>>16591728
>Maternal
Grandmother's father was a blackshirt
Great Uncle fought in Vietnam
>Paternal
Great Uncle was a partisan in Albania';

'Spanish Civil War so no, nothing major.
Nationalist side btw.';

'>>16591793
Any chance he's a 48er? That'd be quite interesting.';

'>>16591791
Any stories? How many mosquito bites? Bolivia was 3 times stronger on paper, and with a German general too, but Paraguay fought smarter and took it more seriously.';

'My great great great^15 grandfather fought in great ape war';

'>>16597405
Neanderthal, Homo Sapien, or Denisovan?';

'>>16591748
>Iraq War (United States)
meh
>War in Afghanistan (United States)
meh
>Persian Gulf War (United States)
cringe
>US invasion of Panama (United States)
based
>Vietnam War (United States)
based
>Korean War (United States)
ultra based
>World War II (United States)
ultra cringe
>American Civil War (Confederate States)
based
>>Texas Revolution (Republic of Texas)
based
>Indian Wars (both sides)
It's a wash
>American Revolutionary War (United States)
based
>Seven Years' War (Great Britain)
based
>English Civil War (Covenanters/Parliamentarians)
meh (royalty is cringe but so are puritans)
>French Wars of Religion (Huguenots)
meh
>First War of Scottish Independence (Scots)
based';

'>>16597762
nobody cares what you think shitskin subhuman';

'>>16597804
shitskins won';

'>>16591734
My gf's great great grandfather is Pancho Villa like many northern Mexicans because he had dozens of bastards, my grandpa from my moms side fought in the Republican side of the Spanish civil war and my great great grandfather was a leading figure under Zapata's regime. As all Mexicans who look into their family tree, plenty fought and died during both the Revolutionary and Christero wars';

'>>16597810
you fucking disgusting brown cockroach. Why are you slithering around pretending to be a right winger when you're ZOG's pet pig trying to undermine the white race? neck yourself you literal NIGGER! fucking monkey! shit-coloured insect!';

'>>16597825
no';

'>>16591728
The last wars any of my blood ancestors fought in were the Mexican-American war and the Civil War(confederacy).';

'>>16591728
both grandpas where pacific vets, tried to look into ships during the height of ship girl gacha games, couldn't find it, but I did see purple hearts. beyond that an aunt found a civil war union officer sword, but no ones on any records in the union army so we're thinking there was an irregular of some kind.';

'>>16597837
who the fuck do you think you are, talking back to whites? get to the back of the bus, fucking nignog!';

'>>16597893
Jews are not white';

'>>16597898
who said anything about kikes? you're a fucking shitskin, a kike slave and foot soldier! go back to your shitskin homeland and stop partaking in the great replacement, mudskin!';

'>>16597956
You show up everytime I'm dunking on jews to have another meltdown, youre a seething ashkenzai';

'>>16597960
i don't give a shit about kikes, you dodging dishonest shitskin! go back to the fucking third world you dog of the Jews. fucking brown rat. Vermin!';

'>>16591748
>>16591728
My family served in the boer wars as most recent service.
Before that:
>battle of the roses successions (my family lost, otherwise I'd be in line to be king) (douglas descent... thanks Cromwell, you prick)
>English civil war
>Scottish war of independence
>Barons' Wars
Hundred Years' War
War of the Roses (Scottish blood side protecting the young prince)
Anglo-Spanish War
Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Technically my line starts with a guy called theobald Freshkin, but due to being in the house courts of lyon registery, I can track it with absolute certainty to about 300'ish AC.


So I am of mainly douglas line, but I also have direct blood through Robert the Bruce's descending line as well as of the anglo saxon line of kings to the time of the viking age.

If we're counting that, I have:
>Viking & Anglo-Saxon Invasions.

I've tracked my furthest line to the westtern European line of the frankish empire and can push out the unbroken line without using a woman to continue the line until about the beginning of the 2nd century.

So my main line from family documents pushes to the black douglas in the 12th
Century which tracks easily until about the 6-7th century, from there it's from a noble woman's blood that I can push it to the time of christ.

So yes, I'm another anon who seemingly has royal blood in me.';

'>>16591728
I had a great uncle serve in WWI, which no one in the family knew about because he never spoke of it ever. Found him in the war records (Australian) he served at the battle of Ypres, won 2 military medals for gallantry under fire or some such shit. Crazy to me. France is a long way away from south Australia lads';

'>>16591728
>italian front of ww1
>yugoslav resistance in ww2
>war in bosnia';

'>>16591728
My Great-Grandfather fought in North Africa. He built telephone and cable wires and manned the spotlights to soot enemy planes.

An uncle fought in the Korean War.

I know of several ancestors who fought for the Union. From what I remember they were 5 brothers that fought in the war. Several of them were on a boat on the Mississippi River and they died when the boat exploded.';

'>>16598512
The Sultana ?';

'>>16599428
I can’t recall but most likely.';

'>>16591728
American Civil War obviously. And my great uncle fought in the Pacific, notably Okinawa. Some horrific shit and crazy stories.';