Order of battle of the Serbian Army in the First Balkan War
The order of battle of the Serbian Army in the First Balkan War is a list of the Serbian units that fought the major campaigns against the Ottoman army from October 1912 to May 1913.[1]
Apart from the infantry divisions of the Serbian army, one Bulgarian infantry division was also part of it.[2]
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Order of battle
[edit]First Army
[edit]Under the command of Crown Prince Alexander Karađorđević.
Chief of Staff: Colonel Petar Bojović.
Divisions | Regiments and batteries |
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Cavalry division:
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Morava division I line:
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Drina division I line: |
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Danube division I line:
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Danube division II line
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Timok division II line
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Army artillery
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Second Army
[edit]Commander: General Stepa Stepanović
Divisions | Regiments and batteries |
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Timok Division I line
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VII ( Rila ) division ( Bulgarian ) MG Todorov |
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Army Artillery
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Third Army
[edit]Commander: General Božidar Janković
Divisions and brigades | Regiments and batteries |
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Šumadija Division I line:
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Morava Division II line:
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Drina division II line:
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Morava brigade I line:
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Army artillery:
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Chetnik detachments Maj. Alimpije Marjanovic |
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Army of Ibar
[edit]Commander: General Mihailo Živković
Divisions | Regiments and batteries |
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Šumadija division II line
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Other units |
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Javor brigade
[edit]Commander: Colonel Milivoje Anđelković
- III supernumerary infantry regiment ( I line )
- IV infantry regiment ( II line) - LtCol Vilotije Marković
- 3rd battery ( detached from Drina divisional artillery division )
- 4th mountain battery ( II line )
- 1st Užice position battery
- 6th heavy battery 120 mm
- cavalry squadron
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- A.^ In the Royal Serbian Army, artillery and cavalry divisions (divizion) were units of battalion size not to be confused with the higher level of divisions (divizija) which had geographic names; The Serbian Army was divided into five divisional area: Morava, Drina, Danube, Shumadia and Timok. Each of them was made of three regional regimental commands with four battalion districts each. Each divisional area provided one first-call division, one second-call division, one or two cavalry squadrons and 6 station batteries.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Andre Gerolymatos (5 August 2008). The Balkan Wars. Basic Books. pp. 275–. ISBN 978-0-7867-2457-4.
- ^ Béla K. Király; Gunther E. Rothenberg (1987). War and Society in East Central Europe: East Central European Society and the Balkan Wars. Brooklyn College Press. ISBN 978-0-88033-099-2.
- ^ "Serbia's wars of liberation and unification from 1912-1918" by Aleksandar Stojićević, p. 26
Literature
[edit]- Belgrade (Serbia) Istoriski institut Jugoslovenske narodne armije (1975). The First Balkan War, 1912-1913: Serbian Army Operations (in Serbian).
- Savo Skoko; Petar Opačić (1974). Vojvoda Stepa Stepanović in the wars of Serbia: 1876-1918 (in Serbian). Beogradski izdavačko-grafički zavod.
- Borislav Ratkovic. Mobilization of the Serbian Army for the First Balkan War, October 1912. Kiraly and Djordjevic, East Central Europe.