Owing to the engagement of the Republic of Srpska Representative Office and with a generous donation of Draško Višić from Banja Luka, a uniform of a Serbian soldier from the First World War has been displayed in a Greek museum for the first time.

A Serbian soldier’s uniform, a Serbian flag, and a water bottle from the First World War have been displayed for the first time in the exhibition space of the Military Museum in Thessaloniki, in the personal exhibition space of retired colonel pharmacist Vasilis Nikoltsios.

Nikoltsios’s long-standing wish to find this uniform, in order to exhibit it next to other Serbian exhibits in the Military Museum in Thessaloniki, has come true owing to the cooperation of Draško Višić and Republic of Srpska Representation in Greece.

Draško Višić, he points out, has emotional connection with this uniform and the Salonica front, because his grandfather Luka Lakić was one of the Salonica soldiers.

Nikoltsios thanked the head of the Republic of Srpska Representation in Greece, Jelena Jovanović, saying that this assistance revealed her ethos and personal struggle to save the memory of the sacrifice of 7,440 Serbs now resting in the Serbian military cemetery Zeitenlik in Thessaloniki.

Source and photo: RTRS