KDVR Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Hello I'm not sure if those three men are from the Serbian or Kingdom of YU army. Thank you for your help! KDVR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 (edited) I think they are from Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Edited September 25, 2009 by SasaYU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh kitchen Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 The crossed swords collar badges are Military Academy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuel Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I have to agree with Sasa that are enlisted men from Yugoslavian Kingdom era, I have somewhere a portrait photo of a young man with the same collars, but I do not know if they were from the Military Academy as Leigh said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 (edited) I am not an expert, but collars look the same as the collars of School for reserve officers in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Maybe they were the same in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ? :unsure: Edited September 26, 2009 by SasaYU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 For comparison, collars from period of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valter Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Swords are for reserve infantry officer's school - and it's quite possible the pic is from Bileća (i served there many years after those guys , proudly wearing the swords just like in Saša's last post). The kingdom used similar collar badge as socialist YU, but not the same. See the difference in the angle and I think kingdom swords were bigger, as the collars were bigger too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh kitchen Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I have a few photos of soldiers wearing these crossed swords collar badges, including some dated head & shoulder ones, 1934 & 1937 I think, I'll dig them out & post them, see how the swords compare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 (edited) A picture that should be a solider of military academy. Edited October 18, 2009 by SasaYU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh kitchen Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Photos dated 1932, 1933 & 1934, & a photo of three cadets of the Reserve Officers School of The Army of The Kingdom of Yugoslavia which was take in the city of Bilecca. The first three photos were obtined from Belgrade the las from Zagreb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Great pictures Leigh ! Is there something written on the back of the photos ? Can you scan it if there is, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh kitchen Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Hee are the backs of the photos, in the same order as above: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Thank you very much Leigh! Very interesting pictures. Photo's were taken in photographic attelier of Vidoslav Dedijer in Bileca. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh kitchen Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Thanks, was that the only school for reserve officers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valter Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Wow, great pictures there!!! Bileća was the only school for reserve officers of infantry. There was also a cavalry reserve off. school, but I'm not sure where, and I don't know if there were more in Kingdom times. In socialist times, there were also reserve officers schools for artillery (Zadar), signals (Belgrade), atomic-biological-chemical defense units (Kruševac), engineers (Karlovac), armor units (??) (Banja Luka), air force (also Zadar) and navy (Split), but I also heard rumors about speical units school in Karlovac. If I missed or messed something, please forgive me. :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunyadi Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 and the chances of finding an original tunic of these??? :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh kitchen Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 (edited) Found another photo that I have - there is nothing written or printed on the reverse. Three men wear the crossed swords collar badges. (Another man has a white mark on his collar, but this is just a flaw n the photo. Edited October 28, 2009 by leigh kitchen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Leigh, thank you for posting your picture. Man in the center of the picture is obviously an officer and others are cadets of the School for reserve officers. Civilian is probably of muslim nationality according to his cap called "fes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valter Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Leigh, a very interesting fotos!! The last one is a kind of mistery, as the guys seem to be too old for reserve officers school! They look late 20's/30's, but cadets should be 18-20, as guys on previous pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh kitchen Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Could they be training staff emplyed at the school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 I think you are wrong Valter. In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia cadets of School for reserve officers were in age 19 - 27. It should be the same in Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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