Max Jud

In September 1915 the Tyrolean Max Jud, just eighteen years of age, wrote a forces letter to his stepbrother Franz Plattner in which he described his current experiences on the Southern Front. His enthusiastic descriptions of the fighting against the Italians testify to a profound euphoria and patriotic ardour for the military conflict with the “Welsh (meaning Italian) brats”. Max Jud fell as a lieutenant of Imperial-Royal Tyrolean Alpine Corps Regiment No. 1 in June 1918 in one of the last battles near Sant’Andrea on the Piave.