Miroslav Milisavljević
Miroslav Milisavljević-Mirko (Knjaževac, Principality of Serbia, 10 June 1868 - Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia 30 July 1929) was a Serbian and Yugoslav general. He was a participant in the Serbo-Bulgarian war, the Balkan Wars and the First World War. During the Thessaloniki trial, he was the president of the Grand Military Court.
Biography[edit]
He was born on 10 June 1868 in Knjaževac, to father Jovan, district treasurer, and mother Draga. There were four more children in the family: brothers Borislav, Vojislav, Svetislav (later the medical brigadier general of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), and sister Vukosava. After finishing the sixth grade of the Kragujevac Gymnasium, he entered the Military Academy in 1885, with the 18th grade. During his schooling, which was interrupted due to the Serbo-Bulgarian war, he progressed gradually. He became a corporal in 1886, a lieutenant in 1887, and a sergeant in 1888. He graduated from the academy on10 August 1888. In 1892, he entered the Higher School of the Military Academy (4th grade). He graduated in 1894, as the ninth in a class of nineteen cadets. In the period from October 1901 to October of the following year, he attended the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in Tsarskoe Selo near Petrograd, Imperial Russia.[1][2][3]
Officer advancement[edit]
After graduating from the Military Academy, he was promoted to the rank of artillery lieutenant on 10 August 1888. He became a lieutenant on 26 April 1893. He was promoted to the rank of Captain of the 2nd Class on 12 May 1896, became a Captain of the 1st Class on 14 May 1898, Major on 2 August 1901, Lieutenant Colonel on 29 June 1907, Colonel on 20 October 1912, general on 29 June 1916 and army general on 21 October 1923.[1][2]
Military service[edit]
As a regular cadet, he took part in the Serbo-Bulgarian war, as an ordinance officer of the commander of the 7th Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Vanlić. After graduating from the Lower School of the Military Academy, as an artillery officer, he was a battery sergeant in the Danube, then in the Šumadija Artillery Regiment. In June 1894, he was appointed acting commander of the 6th battery at the 2nd Division of the Timok Artillery Regiment. He became the commander of the 2nd Division of the same regiment in 1899, and he performed this duty until he left for Russia. Upon his return from Petrograd, he was appointed to serve in the command of the Active Army, and then as the commander of the 1st Division of the Timok Artillery Regiment. He remained in that position until September 1903, when he was transferred to the artillery inspector at the Ministry of War.[1][2]
Then, from November 1903, he was the commander of the 1st Division of the Danube Artillery Regiment and the acting commander of the Timok Artillery Regiment. From this position, in April 1904, he was appointed artillery officer in the command of the Drina divisional area. In the following period, he returned to the troupe, first, as the commander of the 3rd Division of the Moravian Artillery Regiment, and from September 1906 to October 1907 as the acting commander of the Mountain Artillery Regiment. In mid-October of that year, he was appointed artillery inspector at the Ministry of War and a regular member of the Artillery Committee. He passed on his artillery knowledge and experience to others as a teacher. In 1910, he organized the Artillery Shooting School, where he taught theory. [1][2]
Balkan, World War I and the last years[edit]
In the First Balkan War of 1912-1913, he was the commander of the city of Niš artillery detachment and the commander of the entire heavy artillery that took part in the battles near Kumanovo and Bitola. In the continuation of the war, he was the commander of the entire Serbian artillery under Jedreni, as part of the Bulgarian Tundzha Division. In the Second Balkan War, near Vidin, he commanded the artillery of the Timok Division. During 1913—1914, he was also an aide-de-camp to the chief inspector of the entire army, King Alexander Karađorđević. [1][2]
In the First World War until September 1914, he was the chief of artillery of the 1st Army, and then, until his arrival in Corfu, he was the commander of the Timok Division of the 2nd Call. In Corfu, as the chief of the artillery of the Supreme Command, he was in charge of the reorganization of the military. He remained in that position until July 1917, when he was sent to Switzerland to convalesce due to illness. [1][2]
In the post-war period, with the title of honorary king's aide, he was the commander of the 3rd Army District. As commander of this area, he quelled the Arnaut revolt of 1920. In March 1921, he became the commander of the 2nd Army District. He remained in this position until the end of September 1922, when he was made available. Already in November of the same year, he was again the commander of the army area, this time the First. In December 1925, he became a member of the Military Council. In February 1927, he was appointed commander of Belgrade. He did not marry, he helped and lived with the children of his late brother Bora in Belgrade. [1][2]
He died on 30 July 1929. He was buried in the Belgrade New Cemetery.[3]
In addition to the mentioned duties, General Miroslav Milisavljević was the president of the Grand Military Court in the Thessaloniki trial, which confirmed the sentences of Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis and his comrades. [2] He is the creator of the artillery doctrine, according to which the officers who chose this genus in the army were educated in the artillery department, which was established in 1901 at the Military Academy.[2]
References[edit]
- Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%99%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Милић Милићевић; Љубодраг Поповић (2003). Генерали Војске Кнежевнине и Краљевине Србије. Војноиздавачки завод. pp. 143–146. ISBN 978-86-335-0142-2. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 harvnb| Бјелајац|2004|pp=213
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "† Генерал Мирко Милисављевић". Политика. 30 July 1929. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
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