Obversely, one had to be a Latin Rite Catholic to reach any meaningful rank in the Austro-Hungarian Empire's military services.
Slobodan Dimitrov On May 28, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
And I'm not certain that Jerry's family would have been permitted to serve in the Tsarist forces as service to the Crown was then restricted to followers of the Orthodox faith with a very few exceptions.Marc
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