Ministry of defence Republic of Serbia
 
17.05.2018.

101th Anniversary of the Death of Field Marshal Radomir Putnik Observed




 
Today, a delegation of the Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces led by Head of Organisation Department Major General Slađan Đorđević laid wreath and paid homage at the monument to Field Marshal Radomir Putnik at the New Cemetery in Belgrade to mark 101th anniversary of his death.
 
Wreaths were also laid by representatives of the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, descendants of Field Marshal Radomir Putnik and representatives of organisations dedicated to cherishing traditions of liberation wars of Serbia.
 
Organiser of the commemorative gathering was the Government of the Republic of Serbia – Board for Cherishing Traditions of Liberation Wars in Serbia.
 
Radomir Putnik, born on 24th January 1847 in Kragujevac, Serbian Warlord, Field Marshal, Chief of Main General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Serbia in the Balkan Wars and in the First World War. He was the first senior officer of the Serbian Armed Forces with the rank of Field Marshal and one of the most significant military commanders and strategists of the national modern history. Desiring to repay him in every possible manner for his service to the country, his descendants moved the remains of Field Marshal Radomir Putnik from Nice and laid them in a separate tomb within the complex of the Belgrade New Cemetery.