I was told that my grandfather left Russia in 1903 because the military wanted him to be a medic and that would have meant that he could have been in the position of cutting off someone's leg in the field.
I've read a little of the history >from that time. Many young Jewish boys were kidnapped and forced into the military for decades. What are the chances, I know I'm asking for a guess, that this is what happened to him? r, could they have just drafted him for the Russo-Japanese war(?).
