HorrorRoom on Instagram: "The Only Black Soldier of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1915 Simon Perris (Ali Mahmud): The only black soldier in the Hungarian army throughout Hungarian history. According to news reports of the time, Simon Perris (also known as Ali Mahmud) was born in either Congo or Senegal and came to Hungary when he was a little boy. Originally he was a servant for a Turkish man who lived in Budapest. After his master’s death, he worked as a porter at a cinema in Nagyvárad (now Orad