Original scientific paper
Former Austro – Hungarian officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Yugoslavia
Hrvoje Čapo
Abstract
The Serbian army personnel could not respond to the challenges presented in the newly founded Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. A great number of officers from the former Austro-Hungarian Army were to be admitted but with prior verifications. The treatment of accepted officers in the new army was unfavourable and they were labelled as former Austro-Hungarian officers throughout their career. Due to such a treatment and working conditions, as well as some possible personal reasons many of them had left the army. Based on the data collected from the Official army gazette this paper aims to determine the number of former Austro-Hungarian officers who were accepted to the active forces of the army of the Kingdom of SHS, as well as the number of men who left this new army, whether resignation or retirement.
Keywords
Former Austro-Hungarian officers; The Army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Yugoslavia; ranks; resignations; retirements
Hrčak ID:
50558
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2009.
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