During the First World War (WWI) several medical mission were active in the Balkans. In Serbia they all know about the Scottish women hospitals (link),…
Kajmakčalan
Kajmakčalan is a 2528 a.s.m.l. meters high mountain on the Greek-Macedonian border. This is the second time I climbed this mountain, the first time was in…
The first victim of WWI: Dušan Đonović
In the night of 28/29th July 1914 the first shots of the First World War were fired by the Austro-Hungarian army (K.u.K. army) on the…
“Hier ruhen Serbischen helden”
On a monument in a forgotten corner of Košutnjak park in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is written in “Hier ruhen Serbischen helden” (German), below…
02/11/2017: Presentation at the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On the 2nd November 2017 we were honored to present the results of our research to H.E. Mr. Dačić, the Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister…
The Serbian WWI soldiers from the Gornji Milanovac who died in the Netherlands
“This morning, during a solemn ceremony, 4 Serbian Prisoners of War (PoW) were buried with a military escort. Three of them died in the quarantine…
On this day (28/07/1914): The first bombs on Belgrade, the start of WWI.
On this day, 103 years earlier, the Austro-Hungarian government send a telegram(see below) to the Serbian government with a declaration of war. It was the…
“Ja sam ljut” (I am angry)
I have been living in Serbia since August 2014 and I have to admit I am loving it: the Serbian people are very friendly and…
An unknown Slovak&Czech WWI mass grave in Serbia ?
In December 2016 we published, with the help of the Dutch embassy in Belgrade, a brochure about the “Serbian Soldiers of WWI who died in…
Brochure “Serbian Soldiers of WWI who died in the Netherlands”
Last Thursday we presented here in Belgrade the results of our research to the fate of the Serbian WWI soldiers who died in the Netherlands.…