Franz Heinisch’s notes tell of his eventful life. The barber came from Znaim (today Znojmo/Czech Republic) and worked among other places in Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and on a cruise ship before the outbreak of the First World War forced his return and duty in the eastern and southern theatres of war. A member of the Imperial-Royal Regiment No. 99, he was wounded several times and buried in an avalanche in the mountains of the Julian Alps in winter 1917 – an incident he was lucky to survive, since it cost so many soldiers their lives in the mountain war against Italy.
