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Thank you, it's interesting that he received both Merits for the People 2nd class and Bravery Order at the same time.
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Very nice, like you said a textbook example of Soviet made Partisan Star.
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Don't mention it, my pleasure!
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Political commissar of a company wearing Soviet made Bravery Order. The photo was made somewhere between late 1944 and 1946.
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Excellent topic
I'll post a couple of photos from my collection, mostly flee market finds.
First one was taken in Trebinje on October 1944 (original inscription: Требиње - октобар 1944 г.). I believe the general standing in the middle is people's hero Vlado Šegrt. He's wearing Partisan Star 1st class.
By the way notice his hat badge, generals' had white enamel around the edges. You can see the same badge being worn by Petar Drapšin in the photo you posted.0 -
Thank you, Michael, name corrected.
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Very nice, thanks for sharing! We can follow your grandfather's progress order-wise as he rose up through the ranks.
Lieutenant - Military Merits 3rd Class
Captain 1st cl. - People's Army 3rd Class
Major - Military Merits 2nd Class
Lieutenant Colonel - People's Army 2nd Class
I had no idea they were stamping back sides of the certificates when someone purchased miniatures.
Unfortunately, I don't have many documented groups, just this one.
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Thanks for contributing the topic
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Good protection against shrapnels
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A beautiful story about that particular bread can be read HERE.
"There are many testimonies that confirm the huge respect that bread enjoys among the Serb people, as the protector of life in a higher sense. To this day, there is the story of private Aleksa Zdravkovic from Pirot, participant in all three wars from 1912 to 1918, who took his mother’s advice to heart and spent eight years carrying his first portion of bread as the lucky charm. During the long years of soldiering, Aleksa believed that the ration of tain and strong will of his mother offered him protection. The tain of Aleksa Zdravkovic is kept to this day in the Museum of Ponisavlje in Pirot as a symbol of endurance and resilience, not just of one man, but of the entire Serbian people."0 -
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Germany: von Hugo, squadron commander, 3rd guards uhlan regiment (?), military attache
England: Bonham, infantry lieutenant colonel, military attache
Argentina: de Vedia, general staff major, military attache
Austria-Hungary: count of Herberstein, general staff major, military attache
Belgium: Pioch, major general
Bolivia: Suarez, cavalry lieutenant colonel, military attache
Bulgaria: Neresov, general staff major
Chile: Gormaz, general staff major, military attache
China: Wang, colonel.
Denmark: de Hegermann-Lindencrone, major general
Spain: Echagüe y Santoyo, engineer major, military attache
United States: Bentley-Mott, artillery captain, military attache
Greece: Milioly, artillery major
Italy: Chaperon, general staff lieutenant colonel, military attache
Japan: count Hisamatsu, infantry battalion commander, military attache
Mexico: Mondragon, brigade general, military attache; Corarrubias, artillery captain
Netherlands: Bruce, general staff lieutenant colonel
Portugal: Ferreira, artillery captain
Romania: Miclesco, artillery captain, military attache
Russia: Lazarev, general staff colonel, military attache
Serbia: Petar Bojović, general staff colonel
Sweden and Norway: baron Odelsward, cavalry captain, military attache
Switzerland: Galiffe, general staff lieutenant colonel; Van Berchern, artillery lieutenant colonelFrench officers who accompanied them:
-Holender
-Chere
-Coste
-de Ribainse
-Boucabeille
-de Castelbajac
-VideIf I miswrote some names or made other mistakes please fell free to correct me.
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Thanks, just a few trinkets I gathered over the years. I'm looking forward to seeing pieces from your collection
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-MUSEUM OF PONIŠAVLJЕ PIROT (МУЗЕЈ ПОНИШАВЉА ПИРОТ)
-official website: http://test.muzejpirot.com/
Tain, Serbian soldiers’ bread
Aleksa Zdravković (Алекса Здравковић) holding tain
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Order of Sretenje 3rd Class awarded to Children's Cultural Centre Belgrade (Дечји културни центар Београд).
Photo found here.0 -
12 hours ago, Trooper_D said:
What a great contribution to the thread, Paja. May I ask where this comes from and is it the same publication you used to produce the names for the 1912 manoeuvres in the other thread?
List from 1904 was published in the "Le Petit Parisien" journal and I think the other one is from "Le Gaulois".
If you wish I can check which editions, unfortunately I saved just the cropped lists.0
Pre-WW1: US military attaché to Paris Embassy
in France
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Apologies for not being more precise, there was a distinction between honorary vojvoda and "battle vojvoda". Battle vojvoda was the highest military rank in the Kingdom of Serbia/SCS/Yugoslavia and a general could become vojvoda only during the war for particularly successful work. d'Esperey was honorary vojvoda.