03.10.2024.
Commemorations held in Hellenic Republic
An MoD and SAF delegation, led by Col. Goran Ikonić, Director of the Military Film Centre “Zastava Film", Public Relations Department, took part in the ceremonies commemorating the anniversaries of the landing of the Serbian army on the Ionian islands of Corfu and Vido, the Battle of Kaymakchalan and the Salonica front breakthrough in the Hellenic Republic.
The commemorations, organized by the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, were held September 22-29, 2024, as part of the state programme for commemorating anniversaries of the Serbian liberation wars.On September 22, Minister of Defence Bratislav Gašić attended the state wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the 108th anniversary of the Battle of Kaymakchalan.
On September 24, an MoD and SAF delegation laid a wreath near the Memorial Plaque in the village of Gouvia, at the location where the Serbian army landed on the island of Corfu in 1916, and in the church courtyard in Ipsos/Dassia, near the monument to the soldiers of the Second Infantry Regiment “Knjaz Mihailo“ of the Moravian Division.
The next day, the delegation laid a wreath at the monument to the soldiers of the Drina Division and the monument to Janis Janoulis, in the church courtyard in the village of Agios Matheos.On September 26, Minister Gašić led the State Ceremony commorating the 108th anniversary of the landing of the Serbian army on the Ionian islands of Corfu and Vido.
Two days later, Minister Gašić, accompanied by the Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, Nemanja Starović, unveiled a memorial bust of the late Đorđe Mihailović, a longtime cemetery keeper, and laid a wreath at the Serbian Military Cemetery Zeitenlik in Thessaloniki.
The MoD and SAF delegation also laid wreaths in the village of Exaplatanos and at a monument in the local Saint Lazarus Cemetery.The commemorations in the Hellenic Republic ended with a commemoration held in Polykastro on September 29. The MoD and SAF delegation laid wreaths as part of the state ceremony led by State Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs Zoran Antić.
