“Mort pour la France” : Édouard Roland Édouard François Georges Roland is born on 23 April 1884 in Craon in France, a town with a few thousand people. There, 300 kilometers southwest of Paris, he works on the land in Read more…
We made a new discovery, with the help of the Association of War Veterans Descendants from the Braničevo region: we found the family of Mihajlo Avramović from Carevac. For the full story click here (link).
A new discovery has been added : the story of the soldiers from Brdarica: Stanko Lazarević & Stevan Vasić. For the full story, click here (link).
On the 19th March we visited Azanja, a village in the Podunavlje district approximately 80 kilometres South-East of Serbia’s capital Belgrade. Milovan Milojević was born in 1889 in Azanja and died 21th January 1919 in Garderen, the Netherlands. Thanks to Žarko Read more…
Ever since we started our quest in 2012, two issues regarding Garderen had boggled our minds: how was it possible that only 29 graves were there, when we knew that officially 30 Serbian soldiers had died in the camp? And: when was Read more…
On 11 November (Armistice day of WWI) we visited Resnik to meet the family of Miloš Jeremić who died in Nijmegen on 18 January 1919. After 96 years the decedents of Miloš finally know when he died and where he 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 Read more…
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 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