Help reading/translating handwriting

[mrnolson]

Hi guys,

I have yet another photo with writing I cannot read. Just when I think I spot a bit of English, I read a whole lot of something else.

Please can anyone shed any light on what is written here?

Thankyou

[Mike in Cumbria]

Well, there isn't a word of  English in it. It's a romance language (see the word "que") but I can't tell which one at the moment. I'll have another look later.

[GR2]

It is written in Russian. Mine is a wee bit rusty. The first word means friends.

[Mike in Cumbria]

By eliminating those that I do know, I suspect it might be Rumanian, but I know nothing about that language so I can't be at all sure.

Mike

[mrnolson]

I thought I saw 'of' and 'one' in there somewhere, but clearly coincidence! I was 99.9% sure it wasn't English as I couldn't read it, but I didn't stop me trying

Romance Language? My have to Google that term.

Cheers for your help.

[Mike in Cumbria]

Romance = descended from Latin.

The main ones are French, Italian. Portugese, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Romanian, Galician but there are other smaller ones like Ladin.

[GR2]

The script is Cyrillic, not Latin. It is in Russian.

[Little Nell]

It is Russian, but unfortunately I can't read it all.

The first line says 'To (my) friend.......
then
in memory (or) as a reminder of....

They were good friends since the writer uses the familiar form of 'you' rather than the more formal one.

He talks about the help or assistance that he received. 

Do you know anything about the soldier in the photo?

Nell

[mrnolson]

Sorry, nothing.

Whoever can read the script will end up knowing more about him than I do.

I'll post on a military forum when next i have a chance. They may be able to tell me something about the insignia's.