Today an article appeared in Belgrade insight, a free two-weekly newspaper in English in Belgrade, Serbia. You can also read the article on the website of BIRN (Balkan Investigative Reporting Network), link: Balkan Insight Many thanks to BIRN to draw attention to our research! If you have any information which Read more
We have created a map in Google Maps with the places where the soldiers were from, but also other important locations (such as the monument in Garderen, or the mausoleum in Jindřichovice). Please click here for more information and link.
Our site is now also connected to the WWI platform in the Netherlands: www.eerstewereldoorlog.nu . This after someone of our team visited the network day of this coordination platform about the First World War in the Netherlands. The link where you can find our website: http://www.eerstewereldoorlog.nu/agenda/secanje/
After a visit to the National Museum of Valjevo (website) we received two pictures from the museum director for our website. It is the headquarter of the 5th Infantry regiment which was based in Valjevo. Two of our soldiers served in this regiment: Vladimir Mitrović and Radovan Nikolić (from Todorin Do-Kolubara district). Both died Read more
On 20/04/2015 a presentation was given at the university of Belgrade at the Dutch language section (site). A pdf file is available via the following link (the file is hosted on Google Drive): presentation_secanje_2015-ENGLISH.pdf
Here you will find pictures from the remembrance service which was held on the 11 the November 2014, Armistice Day, on the New Cemetery (Novo Groblje) in Belgrade, Serbia. First there was a remembrance service for the soldiers from the Commonwealth, second for the Serbian Soldiers, then for the Russian Read more
Here you will find pictures from the remembrance service which was held the 4th October 2014 in Garderen the Netherlands. The service was held for the Serbian World War I soldiers who died in the Netherlands and was held in front of the monument dedicated to them. Pictures from Sveta Read more
On the 6th August flowers were laid and candles were burned at the monument of Miloš Gavrović in Miločaj. Dutch/Serbian people honoured together this Serbian hero who died in Usselo, the Netherlands, just after WWI because of Spanish flu. More information about Miloš can be found on the page dedicated Read more
The team of secanje.nl was in Jindřichovice, a village near Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic on 28th June 2014. A commemoration service was held for the Serbian and Russian WWI soldiers who are placed in the mausoleum in Jindřichovice. Photo below: The mausoleum in Jindřichovice (CZ), 28.06.2014 Between 1915 Read more
On the 22th May 2014 the Association of War Veterans Descendants from the Braničevo region visited the monument for the Serbian First WWI soldiers in Garderen. After the visit they had a dinner in Utrecht at Serbian school. It was a beautiful sunny day when the Association visited the monument Read more