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    paja

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    1. List of foreign officers who attended the maneuvers according to their rank:

      Denmark: Tuxen, divisional general

      BoliviaPastor Baldivieso, colonel
      SwitzerlandSimonius, artillery colonel; Romer, infantry colonel
      Norway:  Bull, infantry colonel
      Japan: Watanabe, artillery colonel, military attache
      EnglandYarde-Buller, general staff colonel, military attache
      NetherlandsPiepers, cavalry colonel
      Austria-Hungary: Vidal, general staff colonel

      Peru: Manuel Bonilla lieutenant colonel
      Serbia: Milan Tucaković, general staff lieutenant colonel
      Italy: Zaccone, general staff lieutenant colonel, military attache
      ArgentineAvelino Mendez, infantry lieutenant colonel, military attache
      GreeceCharlambis, artillery lieutenant colonel (Charalambos?)
      ChileJulio Brownell / Broronell (?), lieutenant colonel, military attache 
      USABentley-Mott, artillery lieutenant colonel, military attache
      Austra-Hungary: count Lamezan-Salins, general staff lieutenant colonel, military attache
      Spain: Rodriguez de Rivas, lieutenant colonel
      Belgium: Cumont, cavalry lieutenant colonel

      Germanyvon Winterfeldt, general staff major, military attache
      BrasilFleury de Barros, cavalry major, military attache
      Ottoman EmpireDjemil Bey, major, military attache
      Romania: Soutzo, general staff major, military attache 

      Switzerland: Baumain, infantry captain (Balmain?)
      SwedenAmundson, engineer captain, military attache
      Bulgaria: Petrov, general staff captain, military attache 
      MexicoFederico Cervantes, engineer captain
      PortugalPereira dos Santos, general staff captain

      I apologize if I miswrote some of the surnames, a few of them were miswritten in the original source as well.

    2. Greetings gentlemen,
      I stumbled upon information that one of my ancestors was Serbian representative on the Grand Maneuvers of the West in 1912 (Les grandes manoeuvres de l'Ouest). I managed to find a post card with foreign representatives on delcampe.net which proves that. Unfortunately it's not very large so I'd be very grateful if someone could share with me a better scan or some other image or post card with foreign delegations.
      My ancestor was awarded with the Legion of Honor (officer) in 1912, I presume this occurred during the maneuvers. Later, in 1917, he was awarded with the commander.
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      "GRANDES MANŒUVRES DE L'OUEST en 1912 - Missions Militaires Etrangeres"

    3. I forgot to post this before, charter of the Serbian Red Cross Order awarded to the University of Kiev in 1877 (Type 1 - Principality era) and signed by Mihailo, Metropolitan of Serbia, first president of the Red Cross.
      Today kept at the National Library of Ukraine together with some other valuable pieces of Serbian history.
      Serbian manuscripts from the collections of the Institute of Manuscripts LINK
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    4. You are welcome. Tito was indeed decorated with the Star of the Republic of Indonesia 1st class (Bintang RI Adipurna) in 1961 but also with the Sacred Star (Bintang Sakti) in 1960. I'll see if I can dig up some photos.
      BTW I have found more Indonesian recipients of the Yugoslav decorations, if you wish I can post their names.

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