In the spring of 2012 I got intrigued by a World War I monument in Garderen, the Netherlands. On the monument there is a text…
Milovan Milojević from Azanja
Milovan Milojević was born in 1889 in Azanja, a village in the Podunavlje district approximately 80 kilometres South-East of Serbia’s capital Belgrade.When the First World…
“Oh poor lonely Gavrilo”
On 28th of June, Vidovdan in Serbia, a statue was unveiled for Gavrilo Princip in Belgrade, Serbia. It was a gift from Republika Srpska, which…
The First shot of the First World War
The first actual shots of the war were fired just after 1am on 29 July when Austro-Hungarian naval vessels on the river Sava opened fire…
Memorial service in Garderen
The 5th October there was a memorial service for the Serbian WWI soldiers who died in the Netherlands by the monument for them in Garderen…
Proud and grateful :-)
Last Saturday we (Tanja, John and I) got a “thank you” certificate (see below) from the consul of Serbia in the Netherlands and personally I…
Remains of Serbian POWs who died in the Netherlands have been found after 75 years
THE HAGUE / BELGRADE – Recent research has shown that the remains of 89 Serb prisoners of war who died in the Netherlands in 1919…
The Serbian WWI soldiers who died in NL in the Politika newspaper
I was so busy last weeks and so many things happened that I will not name them all here. I have been around New Year…
Miloš Gavrović from Miločaj
Miloš Gavrović, just a name, like my name, your names, it could be everybody. We actually discovered who Miloš is and this is his story:…
We did not forget you Dragutin…
This week we continued our research on the remains of Serbian World War I soldiers who died in the (neutral) Netherlands as prisoners of war.…