Order St Sava

[Jef]

Hello Gents,

I was wondering if someone of you have a list of recipients of the Order of St Sava?

Two close friends of mine are going to publish a book in the near future about the American Cemetery Flanders Fields, Waregem, Belgium. It was told two Americans connected to this cemetery have the Order of St Sava, I'm afraid I don't know which class.

Private Roy F. Garwood,N°1750082 Co K. 148th Inf. Rgt., 37th Division. KIA 2/11/1918, Buried in Flanders Fields Belgium

Captain Richard L. Jett, Medical Reserve Corps att.BEF, KIA 13/4/1918. Commemorated on the Wall of Missing Flanders Fields, Waregem Belgium.

I would be very grateful if someone could verify this.

Kind regards from Flanders,

Jef

[bovec1313]

Hello Gents,

I was wondering if someone of you have a list of recipients of the Order of St Sava?

Two close friends of mine are going to publish a book in the near future about the American Cemetery Flanders Fields, Waregem, Belgium. It was told two Americans connected to this cemetery have the Order of St Sava, I'm afraid I don't know which class.

Private Roy F. Garwood,N°1750082 Co K. 148th Inf. Rgt., 37th Division. KIA 2/11/1918, Buried in Flanders Fields Belgium

Captain Richard L. Jett, Medical Reserve Corps att.BEF, KIA 13/4/1918. Commemorated on the Wall of Missing Flanders Fields, Waregem Belgium.

I would be very grateful if someone could verify this.

Kind regards from Flanders,

Jef

Dear Jef,

I'm affraid you're asking quite impossible thing;

At bombing of Belgrade on April 7, 1941 one of the first German bomb had hit Chancellery of Royal Orders and all archives went in flame.

So, no lists of recipients exist anymore, to my knowledge. The only exception is list of recipients of Order of the Star of Karageorge which still exist.

[JBFloyd]

A reasonable assumption would be that both received knight's badges.

[Emanuel]

Indeed Jeff, these informations are imposible to recover unfortunatelly and hard to tell even if they were received this Order at all.

By the way how is Patrick doing? Hope the book he works on to finish soon, if I remember well, he works a couple of years or more on this book.

Send him my greetings.

Regards

Emanuel

[Jef]

Dear Bovec, Jeff and Emanuel,

Thank you for your answers. We are quite sure about the St. Sava of Capt. Jett. He got this medal together with a Serbian Red Cross medal. My friends were told that Private Garwood also received a St. Sava. But Patrick and Chris were not able to find more information. Now, I know why.

@Emanuel, Patrick is doing fine. Chris and Patrick are working on this book about six years. They asked me to read the manuscript... almost 700 pages of detailed information. They did a tremendous job, there is a review about every doughboy buried or commemorated in this cemetery. I wish them every succes with the book.

Again, many thanks for your help,

Jef