02.12.2022.
Wreaths Laid to Mark Military Veterans’ Day
Today, on the occasion of Military Veterans’ Day, delegations of the Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces laid wreaths with military honours at the monument to the national hero Milan Tepić, heroes of Košare and at the New Cemetery in Belgrade.
Head of Department for Tradition, Standard and Veterans Colonel Dragan Milković led the delegation of the Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces which laid wreaths at the monument to the national hero Milan Tepić and monument to the heroes of Košare. Also, wreaths were laid in the New Cemetery next to Memorial charnel house of soldiers killed in Serbian-Turkish wars and Serbian-Bulgarian War, and Memorial charnel house of the defenders of Belgrade in the First World War and the Monument to Liberators of Belgrade in the Second World War.
In memory of the fallen Serbian soldiers, wreaths were laid at the monuments by members of veteran associations.
Military Veterans’ Day is marked in memory of the date when in 1912 a truce was signed in the First Balkan War when 400,000 warriors of the Kingdom of Serbia Army got the title “Old Warrior”, or war veteran.
