Metadata: Collection of Personal Files of Officers, Corporals and Military Clerks of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Army
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Military Archives of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Vojni arhiv Ministarstva odbrane Republike Srbije
- Postal address:
- Ratka Resanovića 1, 11 000 Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 2051-019
- Web address:
- http://www.vojniarhiv.mod.gov.rs/
- Email:
- vojniarhiv@mod.gov.rs
- Reference number:
- VA-DPP VKJ
- Title:
- Collection of Personal Files of Officers, Corporals and Military Clerks of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Army
- Title (official language):
- Досијеа персоналних података официра, подофицира и војних чиновника Војске Kраљевине Југославије
- Creator/accumulator:
- State Secretariat of the National Defence of the Federative Republic of Yugoslavia
- Date(s):
- 1880/1950
- Date note:
- End of the 19th century/first half of the 20th century
- Language:
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 51,824 personal files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection was created when the personal files on the officers, corporals and military officials of the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were gathered and systematised after WWII by the Central Archives of the State Secretariat of the National Defence of the People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. A small number of personal files dates from the period of the Kingdom of Serbia and the others from the period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The files preserved biographical data, information on promotions and all other changes in an individual’s military service and career, evaluations and assessments, recommendations, international and domestic decorations. The files on the military clerks contained only personal data and changes of employment. The collection contains 615 personal files on Jewish citizens who were in the service or were employed in the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- Archival history:
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The collection “Personal Files of the Officers, Corporals and Military Clerks in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Army” was created after WWII by the Central Archives of the State Secretariat of the National Defence of the People’s Republic of Yugoslavia and was handed over to the Military Archives.
The State Secretariat of the National Defence of the People’s Republic of Yugoslavia compiled the list of personal files and made multiple copies: the first copy was deposited in the Central Archives, the second in the collection and the third copy was preserved in the Personal Administration of the Yugoslav National Army.
- Access points: locations:
- Yugoslavia
- Subject terms:
- Military
- System of arrangement:
- The collection was classified according to alphabetical order, number of the archival box and the number of the personal file.
- Finding aids:
- There is an inventory – list of personal files arranged alphabetically.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Dr Marijana Mraović; The Military Archives; 2021