Tag #125950 - Interview #78405 (Rafael Beraha)

My father was a sick man. From 1912 to 1918 he fought as a soldier in the Bulgarian army on the Macedonian front against the French and the Senegalese [who were also parts of the French Army]. That was in the years of the Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 [see First Balkan War [2] and Second Balkan War [3]] and in the years of World War I [see Bulgaria in World War I] [4]. He came back with rheumatism from the trenches. Besides, he was wounded by a Senegalese shell on the Macedonian front. I remember very well that when my father would take his clothes off, my child’s fist couldn’t cover the wound, which he had got from the opening and removing of the shrapnel.