Socialist Yugoslavia Documented Groups

[BalkanCollector]

Order for Merits for the People with Silver Rays awarded on the same day as the Order of Brotherhood and Unity. December 31st, 1973.

[seb16trs]

On 07/09/2017 at 11:55, BalkanCollector said:

Let's see your documented groups of the Socialist Yugoslavia.

Here's a group of my grandpa's awards with miniatures and documents. I've already posted his awards but I've never posted his documents. Funny story is that there's a Commemorative Medal for 20 Years of Yugoslav People's Army on his miniature bar but he never received that medal since he was at the academy at the time the medal was awarded in 1961. He also got a Tito plaque when he retired but unfortunately the document is lost.

 

 

 

Hello, this is a really nice group, with I suppose a huge affective signification...

Let me ask you a few  questions please:

-What is the link between the small certificate ("uverenje") and the big dilpoma? Were they both decerned to the recipient (as it is done in Hungay or CSSR)

-I never saw any document about the commemorative medal (10, 20 and 30 years of JNA), do they exist?

Thank you for your insight!

[BalkanCollector]

Thank you Seb! 

There's no difference between small and big certificate. The bigger certificate was given for more important awards although they also started using it for lower awards in the 80's as I've seen a few Order of Labor 3rd class awards which are very common and low award with a big certificate.

Commemorative medals were never awarded with a document.

[BalkanCollector]

On 23/04/2018 at 16:56, BalkanCollector said:

I've acquired a new group. I had a Partisan Commemorative Medal of 1941 but I've managed to get the rest of the gentlemen's awards. Here's the photo of the group and I will post more detailed photos as soon as possible.

After a few hours of research I've managed to find where did this gentleman fight during the People's Liberation War.

He was a fighter of 16th Banija Brigade which saw action in the biggest battles of that war, Battle of Neretva and Battle of Sutjeska. All in all I'm very delighted with a result of my research.

[Eric Gaumann]

Nice job recreating this man's awards.

Here's what I've done: I found the docs at my new favorite seller's page and had three of the four awards in my collection already. So I bought the missing award to recreate the set.  Not a matching set but a set I enjoy nonetheless.

[BalkanCollector]

Very nice Eric, thanks for sharing!

[Daffy Duck]

Those orders were issued to one Yugoslav (Serbian) colonel of AA branch.

He was a high officer in Kingdom of Yugoslavia and was in charge of AA protection of Belgrade at the beginning of Second world war. Unfortunately, I haven’t got any of his pre war decorations, and I suppose that they don’t exist any more as I have bought all which was left after he deceased. The only pre communist item is that POW id plate.

He was in Yugoslav People Army till mid 50s with a rank of colonel. What is interesting is that his Order of People’s army II class was awarded in 1952, in the same year that order was established. He was also awarded with the Order of Military merits I class as well as with Order of merits for the people II class. 

There are two additional plaques, both on the theme of AA defense.

Unfortunately, I haven’t got any awarding documents, but some photos from his trip to the USA in 1952 where he was leading one official yugoslav delegation to Fort Bliss, TX.

[Gordon Craig]

Daffy Duck,

Nice set of awards.  The ID tag says that he was a prisoner of war in Oflag XIII B.  Here is a wiki link to some info on the camp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag_XIII-B 

Regards,

Gordon

[BalkanCollector]

Remarkable group Daffy!

[BalkanCollector]

My newest uncomplete group consisting of "Spomenica 1941" and an early Order for Merits for the People 2nd class awarded in 1948. It belonged to a Colonel of a technical branch of service. He was a commander of company (četa) in the 1st Lika Proletarian Brigade during the People's Liberation War. Some of you have probably seen his spomenica and I've acquired his other award this week.

 

Order for Merits for the People 2nd class

[BalkanCollector]

Here's my latest documented group. Order for Merits for the People 3rd class (#74,0XX) and a Medal for Bravery. They were awarded to reserve zastavnik (sergeant). Both of the awards have been awarded on the 6th of June 1949.

Research for further information about the man is in progress...

[Kallarati Heroik]

It says GOLD 900.

IS ORIGINAL.?

[BalkanCollector]

Wrong thread but it's alright. 

It's hard to say since the photos are poor. If it's real, it most likely isn't an awarded piece since a lot of them come from supplies.

[Eric Gaumann]

Slightly off-topic but I finally got around to framing my documented group of two OMMs and 2 OPAs.

Don't worry, no original documents were harmed in making this display; I used photocopies.

[BalkanCollector]

I took a glimpse at your pictures first and was quite shocked but then I read your post and felt a huge amount of relief knowing the documents are copies.

Nicely done Eric!

[Drugo]

On 14/08/2019 at 02:00, Kallarati Heroik said:

It says GOLD 900.

IS ORIGINAL.?

I just noticed this one. I would not like it in my collection. The full "IKOM Zagreb" hallmark is new to me, and the position of the serial number (with a full stop?) is not correct. Besides, the case doesn't look appropriate, with that blue ribbon.

[Daffy Duck]

Well, it's not proper order for sure.

I would definitely skip this one.

[BalkanCollector]

It's been a while since I posted in this topic so here's one of my latest groups. This partisan got two orders for his service during WW2.

 

Order for Merits for the People 3rd class, early ZIN type with a low number #3,942. He got it while he was a senior sergeant (stariji vodnik), the highest NCO rank in the Yugoslav Army at the time.

 

 

 

 

 

Order for Bravery with a rare box, numbered #77,625. He got it as a reserve ensign (zastavnik), the lowest officer rank in the Yugoslav Army at the time.

 

 

 

 

[eatmeat]

Group of Slovenian major general, ended the war as a major in the Titos HQ. Medals with all the documents, his CV, applications for promotions, applications for retirement form the army in 1966, letters from the war (one leter dated 15.4.44 Drvar, he fought in the offensive 10 days later) etc...

Unfortually 2 medals are missing Bulgarian order of war merit 4th class (he was chif comuniction officer for bulgarian 1st army and partisan HQ) and Order of Brotherhood and unity 1t class. And there are no boxes.

 

As he was one of the first communist in Slovenia and was arround all the later leaders during the war and was with them on the same political courses, his carrer stopped after the war. Maybe because he did not have highschool education or maybe because he was chif of the supply at the HQ (intendantska sluzba). And i dont think suppy services neede or had a lot of generals. He recive his general ran with retirement from the army. 

 

[Drugo]

WOW!! AMAZING GROUP Eatmeat! Congratulations! Can you share the name? What year was he born?

[BalkanCollector]

3 hours ago, eatmeat said:

Group of Slovenian major general

 

Such a fantastic group! Any chance you can post close images of every award (obverse and reverse) and document? I know it's a lot of work but I'm sure there's a lot of us interested.

[eatmeat]

Name: F. Šetrajčič born 27.12.1916.

 

 

 

Edited December 23, 2021 by eatmeat

[Drugo]

Fantastic, thank you! And very interesting to see on picture that he used to wear his orders with that black cloth underneath, probably to preserve the uniform from attrition, but highly unusual and probably tolerated only because of his rank... Or maybe they retired him for that!

[BalkanCollector]

Absolutely amazing! Thank you very much for sharing the photos and info with us! I'm surprised he got the lowest class of the Order for Merits for the People since he was a high ranking officer.

[Gunner 1]

An Order of the Partisan Star, III Class to a Soviet Army Lieutenant. 

Lieutenant Anatolii Ivanovich Akul’shin was born in 1910 at Tbilisi, the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and joined the Red Army on November 10, 1942. He served on the 3rd Ukrainian Front from May 12, 1944 to his death as a platoon leader with the 431st Rifle Regiment in the 52nd Rifle Division. He was awarded the Soviet Order of the Red Star on October 29, 1944 for leading his platoon in the first attack on the Serbian city of Boljevac on October 7, 1944 during which his platoon killed more than 22 German soldiers (he personally killed two of them himself). 

Lieutenant Akul’shin was killed in action north of the Yugoslavian city of Vukovar on December 8, 1944 and was buried where he fell. On May 5, 1945 he was posthumously awarded the Yugoslavian Order of the Partisan Star, 3rd Class, numbered 2376 by order of the President of the Anti-Fascist Parliament of the People’s Federation of Yugoslavian, No. 190 of April 30, 1945. Akul’shin’s insignia is the variety of the Order produced by the Soviet Mint, Монетный Двор.