Editing Franc Rozman (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Franc Rozman house.JPG|thumb|left|House where Franc Rozman was born]]
Franc Rozman was born in the [[Carniola]]n village of [[Spodnje Pirniče]]<ref name="Savnik">Savnik, Roman, ed. 1971. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 2. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, p. 384.</ref> near [[Ljubljana]], part of [[Austria-Hungary]] at the time, to a [[Slovenes|Slovene]] working-class family. His father Franc Rozman was a railway track-worker, while his mother Marjana (née Stare) was a housewife. He was the third of four children, with two elder sisters, Marjeta and Terezija, and a younger brother, Martin.

At the age of three, Rozman's father died on the [[Eastern Front (World War I)|Eastern Front]], where he fought as a soldier in the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]]. Rozman had a poor and hard childhood. His sisters Marjeta and Terezija were sent to an orphanage, while Franc and his brother Martin remained in Pirniče. At the age of 15, he worked in a tavern and then trained as an apprentice baker.<ref name="Klanjscek"/><ref name="Mala">''Mala splošna enciklopedija'', vol. 3. 1976. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenija, p. 257.<!--ISSN/ISBN needed--></ref>

As a young boy he had great enthusiasm for a military career, but his application to the military school was rejected. In spring 1932, he did his military service in the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Royal Yugoslav]] army.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}