Royal Serbian Army Explained

Unit Name:	Royal Serbian Army
Native Name:	Војска Краљевине Србије
Dates:	1882–1918
Type:	Army
Motto:	За веру, краља и отачаство Za veru, kralja i otačastvo "For Faith, King, and Fatherland"^[1]
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The Army of the Kingdom of Serbia (Serbian: Војска Краљевине Србије|Vojska Kraljevine Srbije), known in English as the Royal Serbian Army, was the army of the Kingdom of Serbia that existed between 1882 and 1918, succeeding the Armed Forces of the Principality of Serbia and preceding the Royal Yugoslav Army.

Organization

Field armies

• First Army (Serbia)
• Second Army (Serbia)
• Third Army (Serbia)
• Timok Army
• Užice Army

Orders of battle

• Order of battle of the Serbian Army in the First Balkan War
• Order of battle of the Serbian Army in World War I

Wars

See also: List of wars involving Serbia.

Conflict	Allies	Adversaries	Results
Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885)	(support)		Defeat Treaty of Bucharest (1886), return to situation before the war Recognition of the unification of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria.
First Balkan War (1912–1913)	Italy (volunteers) Albanians (volunteers) Armenians (volunteers) (support)	Circassians Albanians (volunteers and irregulars) (support)	Victory Treaty of London Outbreak of the Second Balkan War.
Ohrid-Debar Uprising (1913)		IMRO Kachaks	Victory Suppression of uprising
Second Balkan War (1913)			Victory Treaty of Bucharest (1913).
Balkans theatre (World War I) (1914–1918)	(from 1915) (from 1915) (from 1917) (from 1915) (1916-1917)	(from 1915) (from 1915) (1916–1917)	Victory Serbia regained its territory in 1918, occupied since 1915. Proclamation of Podgorica Assembly in Montenegro of unification with Serbia Unification of Slavic inhabited lands of Austria-Hungary with Serbia to form Yugoslavia Treaty of Neuilly

Military equipment

Armament

Weapon	In use	Notes
Rifles
	1881–1907+	110,000 units. Known as kokinka (pl. kokinke). Upgraded Mauser Model 1871.
Mauser-Koka 1884	1884–1918	4,000 units. Upgraded M71/84.
	1912–1918
	1912–1918
	1899–1918
	1907–18	Upgraded Mauser-Koka.
	1910–1918
	1890–1918	75,000 units. Known as berdanka (pl. berdanci, berdanke).
	1907–1918	known as belgijanka (pl. belgijanke)
	1915–18
	1880–1918
	1916–1918
	1914–1918
Machine guns
	1916–1918	3,838 units.
	1915–1918
	1897–1918	2,500 units.
	1911–1918
	1914–1918	^[2]
Handguns
	1887–1918
	1883–1918
	1896–1918
	1916–1918
Grenades
	1904–1918

Uniform

• Šajkača

See also

• First Serbian Volunteer Division
• Serbian Chetnik Organization
• Serbian Armed Forces

Sources

Books

• Book: W. H. Crawfurd Price. Serbia's Part in the War .... 1918. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company.
• Book: Milićević. Milić. Popović. Ljubodrag. Генерали војске Кнежевине и Краљевине Србије. Vojnoizdavački zavod. 2003.
• Book: Vasić, Pavle. Uniforme srpske vojske: 1808-1918. 1980. Jugoslavija.
• Milkić. Miljan. Специфичности верског живота у војсци Кнежевине–Краљевине Србије. Војно дело. 2003.

Journals

• Mijalkovski, Milan. "Četničke (gerilske) jedinice Kraljevine Srbije–borci protiv terora turskog okupatora." Zbornik radova Instituta za savremenu istoriju 09 (2007): 59–81.
• Becić, Ivan M. "Ratni dugovi Kraljevine Srbije u svetlu politike." Istorija 20. veka 3 (2010): 45–56.
• Gavrilović, Dejan V. Fizičko vežbanje i vojska Kraljevine Srbije. Diss. Univerzitet u Beogradu-Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja, 2016.
• Đorđević, Branislav D. "Training of the Serbian Army." Vojno delo 51.5-6 (1999): 149–165.
• Denda, Dalibor. "Српска војска у предвечерје епохе ратова 1912–1920." Zbornik radova Instituta za savremenu istoriju 12 (2014): 423–436.
• Đukić, Slobodan. "Contribution of the Military Academy to the development of military theory in Serbia in the second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century." Vojno delo 67.5 (2015): 401–425.
• Mladenović, Božica. "Vojska Kraljevine Srbije za vreme Balkanskih ratova u ogledalu nemačke štampe." Baština 22 (2007): 161–171.
• Barović, Vladimir. "Voluntary participation in the armed forces of the Kingdom of Serbia as a possible model of professionalization of the armed forces of the Republic of Serbia." Vojno delo 62.2 (2010): 348–360.
• Ivetić, Vladimir. Politička uloga ministara vojnih Kraljevine Srbije od 1903. do 1914. godine. Diss. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences, 2013.

Symposia

• Ratković–Kostić. Slavica. Vojska Kraljevine Srbije 1916. i 1917. godine. Organizacija i formacija. Armed forces of the Serbian Kingdom 1916 and 1917. Organization and formation. Prvi svetski rat i Balkan–90 godina kasnije, Tematski zbornik radova. Institut za strategijska istraživanja [First World War and the Balkans–90 years after, Collections of papers, Strategic Research Institute]. Belgrade. 2010. 101–117.

Notes and References

1. MO SCG. Odbrana. Odbrana: Magazin Ministarstva Odbrane SCG. 3–4. 53–58. 2007. Novinsko-izdavački centar "Vojska". 71.
2. Book: Willbanks, James H.. Machine Guns: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. 1 January 2004. ABC-CLIO. 978-1-85109-480-6. 57.