10.11.2015.

Honorary salvo on the Armistice Day

On the Sava Plateau at Kalemegdan, today members of the SAF Guard fired 10 honorary volleys from six artillery pieces, marking tomorrow’s celebration of the Armistice Day in the Great War.

The honorary artillery salvo was attended by Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic, Chief of General Staff General Ljubisa Dikovic, State Secretaries in the Ministry of Defence Zoran Djordjevic and Nenad Neric, Commander of the Guard Major General Milomir Todorovic and numerous citizens.

Order of the President of the Republic on the execution of honorary artillery fire was read by Major Vladan Cirovic, the salvo was fired by Captain Djordje Simic, and the Orchestra of the Guard was conducted by Captain Aleksandar Djurov.

Armistice in the Great War was signed in the special wagon of Marshal Ferdinand Foch on 11 November 1918 in France.

The ceremony marking the Armistice Day is an act of paying tribute to all the victims of the armed forces and civilians victimized during the Great War. The truce, which was in force until the conclusion of the final peace treaty in Versailles, on 28 June 1919, is celebrated in all countries that signed the agreement.