Reference Type:  Journal Article
Author: Petrovic, Ilija
Year: 2006
Title: Srpski dobrovoljci iz rumunskog Banata 1912—1918
Translated Title: [Voluntarii sârbi din Banatul românesc în perioada 1912—1918 / Serbian Volunteers from the Romanian Banat 1912—1918 / Szerb önkéntesek a romániai Bánság területén 1912-1918 között]
Journal: Temišvarski zbornik
Volume: 4/2006
Language: Serbian
Keywords: Serbian, history, war, sociology
Abstract: (ENG)In the liberation wars of Serbia and Montenegro from 1912 to 1918, there participated a great number of volunteers from the Serbian regions across the Drina, the Sava and the Danube which were under the Austrian or Hungarian occupation for several centuries or decades: some ran away to Serbia or Montenegro at the very begnning of the war operations, others belonged to the circle of the prisoners of war from the Austrian-Hungarian army — both from the Serbian and the Russian front, and one part arrived from the overseas countries, mostly from The United States of America. Among the volunteers, there were almost exclusively Serbs — the entire 98,5%, mostly from Bosnia, Herzegovina and Lika, then from Vojvodina; as for the last above-mentioned group, they came mostly from Banat, then Srem and Baåka and Baranya. The volunteers from Banat were the most numerous because they found out that the strip of their homeland was promised to Romania if it entered the war. They „were ready to get all killed rather than to come under Romania", which declared war to Austria-Hungary only on August 27, 1916. Exactly four months earler, in the four liberation regiments of the First Serbian Volunteer Division, there were 3.758 men from Vojvodina, and on September 6, in the same year, the day before entering the battle in Dobruja, there were 6.225 volunteers from Vojvodina. Immediately before the breaching of the Salonica front, there were at least 8.000 Serbs from Serbian Vojvodina in the Serbian Army. For the most part, this paper writes about the volunteers from emigration. Although the greatest number of volunteers from emigration arrived from August 1914 till the end of January 1917, there were no data about them; the American authorities, referring to their neutrality, in different ways obstructed the gathering of the Serbian volunteers, not only those who were the citizens of Austria-Hungary. In these years, the volunteer lists were not made, so we can only assume that among them there were some persons born in the present Romanian Banat. Therefore, the paper lists the names of
those volunteers from the Romanian Banat who came to the Salonica front approximately during the last twenty monts of war. In addition to the thirty six volunteers arriving from The United States, the paper also mentions five members of the Pivko's battalion from the Italian battlefield and two members of the medical missions associated with the Serbian Army.
URL: http://www.maticasrpska.org.rs/stariSajt/casopisi/temisvarski_zbornik_4.pdf