Joseph Vidich's Military Passport

 Josef Vidic, who later became a naturalized American citizen with a new spelling for his name as Joseph Vidich, also carried a military passport since he served in the Austrian army in regiment No. 9 which was a field artillery regiment (i.e., Feldanonenregiments). According to his military passport he was born in Kropa in 1886 and spoke the Slovenian language. This passport is stamped December 2, 1910 in Klagenfurt Hauptbahnhof which was the central railway station in the southern state of Carinthia, Austria. Presumably Joseph Vidich passed through this central railway station on route to Kropa, which according to his military passport is dated "Kropa 8/12/ 1910"  - the European nomenclature for Kropa December 8, 1910.  According to this passport he joined the Austrian army on April 30, 1907 and he was assigned to the reserves effective December 31, 1910 and in the terrritotiral reserves until December 31, 1917.  His assignment to these reserve units may have been one of many reasons that encouraged Josef Vidic to migrate to America.