09.01.2015.
Exhibition "Serbia remembers Allied Bizerte" at MMA
In the amphitheatre of the Military Medical Academy today, the exhibition "Bizerte in the heart of Serbia" by retired Lieutenant Colonel Luka Nikolic has been opened to mark the 99th anniversary of the landing of the first military transport of the Serbian Army soldiers at Bizerte.Luka Nikolic, a descendant of Djunisije Nikolic, combatant of the 4th Regiment of the Serbian Army who was buried at the military cemetery in Tunisia in 1916, prepared a display that includes 87 photographs within 12 historical units in order to recall the important role of the people of North Africa in recovery of the combatants of the Serbian Army in the First World War.
According to Prof. Colonel Zoran Segrt, MMA Deputy Head, the horrors and sufferings in the Great War through which military medics passed along with the people, are evidenced by the fact that no medical lieutenant survived the armed conflict. As he pointed out, 41,000 wounded from the Serbian Army found shelter in Bizerte, out of which 36,000 were cured or healed.
Within the present meeting, a documentary by Tanja Fero "Bizerte – return to the legend" was presented to testify the generous assistance of the people of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco who, after suffering of the Serbian Army soldiers through Albania and their arrival to Corfu, contributed significantly to faster recovery of the exhausted Serbian fighters in 36 hospitals and medical centres.The evidence for the stay of Serbian soldiers, as it was said, is decorated and preserved Serbian memorial complexes and monuments in North Africa, located in 24 cemeteries in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
