{"id":2845,"date":"2026-05-19T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/litteratur_og_kilder\/military-service-time\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:27:47","slug":"military-service-time","status":"publish","type":"litteratur_og_kilder","link":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/litteratur_og_kilder\/military-service-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Service Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>My Military Service and Discharge from Service<\/h2>\n<div>On May 13, I attended the conscription board in K\u00f8ge and was accepted for military service, drawing number 217.<br \/>Towards the end of the summer, I received my call-up order and was to report to B\u00e5dsmandsstr\u00e6de Barracks on January 3, 1929.<br \/>At the end of October, we held several farewell parties, as a number of people from the dairy and &#8220;Rosenb\u00e6kg\u00e5rden&#8221; were changing positions, and the most &#8220;spirited&#8221; one was held at the dairy.<br \/>For the last two months, I worked at &#8220;Flinterupg\u00e5rd&#8221; in Ringsbjerg.   <\/div>\n<p>On January 3, 1929, I then put on &#8220;the uniform&#8221; and was assigned number 342.<br \/>The first two months were tough; one rushed about like a &#8220;tamed wild animal.&#8221; It was, after all, recruit training.<br \/>On March 4, I was transferred to the Hussar Barracks, where I became an orderly for the then First Lieutenant Lange, and there I had four people and two horses to look after.   <\/p>\n<p>In our free time, we got to know Copenhagen through various visits, including Tivoli, Bakken, Idr\u00e6tsparken, and the Zoological Gardens.<br \/>On one of the last days, we visited the Tuborg Breweries and became thoroughly wet &#8220;on the inside,&#8221; and in the evening continued in Viborggade, visiting several taverns.<br \/>In July, I was unfortunate enough to fall off a horse and suffered a concussion, and I spent three weeks at the &#8220;Porridge Castle.&#8221;<br \/>On September 4, 1929, my period of service came to an end, and we gathered on the &#8220;Bossen&#8221; to hand in our equipment. When the command was given, &#8220;As civilians, fall out,&#8221; a group of happy young men left military life behind and set out into civilian life once again.    <\/p>\n<p>On November 1, 1929, I came to Vall\u00f8 Dairy as a milkman and farmhand, and also helped a little in the dairy.<br \/>On January 20, 1930, I was to take a bicycle to the blacksmith from &#8220;Kammerherreg\u00e5rden.&#8221; I got on it and rode over a stretch of uneven road, where I lost my balance and fell off, spraining one of my legs. It cost me three weeks on my back.<br \/>On September 1, 1930, due to certain &#8220;circumstances&#8221; that had arisen, I moved to Str\u00f8by, but returned to &#8220;Dyrehaveg\u00e5rden,&#8221; Vall\u00f8, on November 1, 1930, where I once again had an educational position involving seed and potato cultivation as well as pig breeding.<br \/>As I was the foreman, I operated machinery and made most of the trips to K\u00f8ge and other places with pigs, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, and more.     <\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1931, my old grandmother died, the last of my grandparents, and was buried in S. churchyard.<br \/>In the autumn, we had two 36-inch threshing machines out working for the local people. When the day&#8217;s work was finished, we would often take a walk through the beautiful deer park and the gardens of Vall\u00f8 Castle, over to Vall\u00f8 Inn for a beer or an evening coffee, and then walk back through the quiet and idyllic forest, listening to the clock tower strike eleven\u2014and sometimes twelve.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2822,"template":"","personer":[109],"class_list":["post-2845","litteratur_og_kilder","type-litteratur_og_kilder","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","personer-hans-joergensen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/litteratur_og_kilder\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/litteratur_og_kilder"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/litteratur_og_kilder"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"personer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkdanmark.simsoft.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personer?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}