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Infantry lieutenant colonels' epaulettes (National Museum Niš).

Senior infantry officers' mundir with epaulettes belonged to Miloš Cvetić (National Museum Kragujevac - same as the last two pairs).

Infantry colonel 2.

Infantry colonel 1.

Detail.

Artillery Major (8th Artillery Regiment)

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Page in Serbian with some interesting information: http://fondacijaruskinekropolj.rs/o-ruskom-nekropolju/

The whole complex was recently renewed.

Around the crypt is Russian Necropolis with around 3000 remains of Russian emigres and Iverskaya Chapel, an exact copy of the chapel that was demolished by the Bolsheviks in Moscow’s Red Square.

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Cross of Russian People's Opolchenie (Русское Народное Ополчение) - For Faith, Tzar and Fatherland (За Веру, Царя и Отечество).

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"To our brothers Russians bravely fallen during defense of Belgrade, on Thessaloniki front and other parts of Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1914-1918" (Храбро палој браћи Русима при одбрани Београда, на Солунском фронту и осталој територији Краљевине Југославије 1914-1918).

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"Eternal glory to the Emperor Nicholas II and 2 000 000 Russian soldiers of the Great War" (Вечная память Императору Николаю Второму и 2 000 000 русских воинов Великой войны).

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"Rest in peace warrior eagles" (Спите, орлы боевые) - inscription above the entrance.

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Monument and crypt with remains of Imperial Russian soldiers finished in 1936. It is located at Belgrade's Novo groblje (eng. New Cemetery). Author is Roman N. Verkhovsky, co-author is Valery Stashevsky and the idea came from Mikhail Skorodumov Imperial Russian officer and later general. According to information I found in one article the crypt contains remains of 13 officers and 274 NCOs and soldiers of the 2. and 4. special infantry brigade exhumed from southern parts of Kingdom (Thessaloniki Front), 138 NCОs and soldiers who lost their lives during the defense of Belgrade 1914-15, two sailors from the steamboat "Tiraspol" and 66 soldiers who died in Austro-Hungarian POW camps.

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One more unidentified foreign Takovo recipient can be found in this topic: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/31084-what-did-this-guy-do-for-a-living/?p=292909

Pietzner Karl, Austrian photographer.

Takovo on miniature chain.

Franz Joseph's order, photo found on publisher's website: http://www.militaria.at/Book.aspx?book=8857800&Language=en

King Albert's Star of Karađorđe and Golden Obilić medal can be seen on the Royal Museum of the Army and of Military History webiste.

http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/frans/collecties/OMD-albert/Serbie/karageorge.html

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Karageorge Star: 111 Belgian recipients

Orde White Eagle: 130 Belgian recipients

Is there perhaps complete list with names of all recipients? I just checked the book I mentioned, unfortunately there's only list of British recipients.

Even in the summary review there's no mention of Belgians, not even King Albert I.

According to that (incomplete) list out of 17 1st class Karađorđe stars 14 were given to foreigners.

5 to French (Joffre, Sarrail, d'Espèrey, Pétain, Guillaumat), 3 to Italians (Cadorna, Salandra, Sonnino) 2 to British (Haig and Pinkstone), 2 to Romanians (Ferdinand and Carol) 1 to Americans (Pershing) and 1 to Czechoslovaks (Masaryk).

2nd class out of 18 in total 14 to foreigners: 9 to French, 4 to Italians, 1 to British.

3rd class out of 198 - 71 to foreigners: 60 to French, 10 to Italians, 1 to British.

4th class out of 1317 - 129 to foreigners: 87 to French, 21 to Italians, 11 to Russians, 7 to British, 2 to Romanians and 1 to Americans.

Golden Soldiers' Order out of 1111 - 37 to foreigners.

Silver Soldiers' Order out of 2285 - 836 to foreginers.

*Author of the book states that couple of awards were given after this statistic was made like for example: award to Unknown Hero, Mačvanski Prnjavor (village), Belgrade. Second thing - it is not know do these numbers refer to awards or recipients. If the numbers refer to orders then the number of recipients is much smaller due to fact that many were awarded more than once.

Interesting: There are a lot of Belgian officers who were enlisted during the reign of Karageorgevich and Obrenovic, but all which have received the Order of Karageorge, didn't ware or got the Order of Takovo? Only one of them? Is that a known fact or just coincidence?

I've seen photos of Serbian officers and generals wearing both Obrenović and Karađorđević "dynastic" decorations at the same time...

I guess that those Belgians who received both Takovo and Star of Karađorđe didn't wore Takovo later out of respect for Serbian monarch.

Pleased to hear that, I'll see if I can dig up more Belgian recipients.

I know that there are lists of some foreign recipients in the book "Knights of the Star of Karađorđe with Swords", if I remember well British and French, I will check later for Belgians.

Thanks for sharing those! Apart from that small enamel damage on the front side seems to be in very good condition.

My congrats on a great catch.

Photos found here: http://www.ablhistoryforum.be/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1394

De Ceuninck

F.J. De Bray

B.A. Ceulemans