paja

Detail 3.

Detail 2.

Detail 1.

Sabre.

Picture of kalpak.

If I'm right this should be, acording to the Pavle Vasic's book Uniforms of the Serbian army 1808/1918, uniform of the cavlary guard officer from 1859.

It was consisted of dolama made of green cloth, trousers of red cloth, brown overcoat and cap (kalpak) of black astrakhan with flat top.

But the illustration in the book is much different from the picture that I have. So I'm wondering whether it is the same uniform.

Any help or comment is more than welcome.

Regards

Paja

@Emanuel

Look for the name of that officer in your inbox.

Nice picture leigh kitchen!

Does anyone recognize breast badges, worn by the three officers in the back?

Are they 1912-1920 wars veteran badges or something else?

Thanks Mike :cheers:

Both of these orders belong to my cousin. He inherited them from his grandfather, Serbian army major and 1912-1918 wars veteran.

The Order of the White Eagle with Swords:

The order of the Karageorge Star with Swords:

Mike and Sasa you're welcome!

Unfortunately i had to compress them (the 70K restriction), they look much better in full resolution.

This cockade belonged to my great-grandfather, i think it was introduced in 1934 after the assassination of King Aleksandar I.

ПII stands for Петар II (Petar or Peter) the last king of Yugoslavia.

After the fall of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in '41, my great-grandfather, like the rest of Serbian officers in the army of the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia, was sent to POW camp in Germany. He spent 4 years in that camp and after the war ended the only

thing he brought back from captivity was this cockade and the the dog tag he received in camp.

This link may be useful, there's a picture of a medal with what seems to be an original ribbon:

http://awards.netdialogue.com/Europe/Yugoslavia/Serbia/1886CC/1886CC.htm

Regards

Paja

Every participant of the 1885-1886 war received that commemorative medal.

Ribbon looks like this:

Back side:

I found some pics on ebay, hope it's not forbiden to post them...

Artillery 2nd Lieutenant

Dear Andyg,

My compliments. Very beautiful pieces. Can you tell me, if this kind of epaulettes have been used even during first period Tito? Or, at least, in the same time with the Albanian using of them (1947-1952).

Artan as I said before communists were using the same or very similar hard epaulettes from 1946 'till 1955.

Andyg thank you very much for high resolution pics. I'm spechless, beautiful collection, especially those parade uniform shoulder boards!

Nice piece of history with a scary story behind it.

Thanks for sharing it with us Valter!

1861 - Austrian model