IV #Cavalry Regiment of “the Great Prince Konstantin Konstantinovic“ returned from the #Balkan Wars to #Belgrade#railway station at four o`clock in the afternoon on the 3rd August 1913, where it was welcomed and greeted by a great number of Belgrade citizens.The regiment then went to the camp in Banjica to join the troops which paraded through the capital city, particularly ready for the official reception of the #Serbian victors on the 11th August 1913.
Early in the morning on the 24th March 1914 two trains arrived at the Railway station in #Belgrade carrying the first generation of recruits from the newly liberated regions, Old #Serbia and Southern Serbia. After the official reception, the recruits headed via central city streets towards the barracks in the Upper Town of Kalemegdan Fortress.
Courtesy of the #Museum of the Revolution of the Peoples of #Yugoslavia, inventory numbers: 6331, 6339, 6343, 6359 and 6360. The #photos were bought from Vojin Đorđević from #Belgrade on 26.01.1965.
After the capture of Yugoslavia in April of 1941, the #medieval#Smederevo#Fortress was designated as the storehouse for the captured equipment, ammunition, weapons and petrol of the Royal Yugoslav Army, which was to be used in the attack on the USSR. 🔽
An interesting old booklet we came across in the National Library in #Belgrade
Fairly simple and straightfoward rules from 1914 on how POWs were to be treated.
Issued after the start of #WWI and #Serbian victories in that year, which resulted in several tens of thousands of Austro-Hungarian soldiers being taken prisoner. Some 30 000 of them would be escorted with the Serbian army through #Albania in 1915. and handed over to Italians on the coast.