The British in Serbia

Photo Exhibition

THE BRITISH AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA

About the Exibition

This exhibition will bring to life the actions of those officers and soldiers of S.O.E and other British military missions who operated in Yugoslavia, through the photographs they took and the reports they wrote.

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Gallery

British Prime Minister: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. (IWM, London, photographic archive, H 41846)

SOE in Yugoslavia

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The pre-war identify card of William ‘Bill’ Hudson. He was the first S.O.E. officer to return to Yugoslavia on 20th September 1941 and the only S.O.E. officer to work with both Mihailović and Tito. (IWM, London, Documents archive 12691)

British Military Missions with the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland, 1941-1944: Hudson, Atherton, Bailey and Armstrong

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Josip Broz Tito (IWM, London, Documents archive 12691)

British Military Missions with the Yugoslav National Liberation Army, 1943-1945: Stewart, Deakin and Maclean

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A pilot from the Balkan Air Force (BAF) 352 (Yugoslav) Squadron signs his aircraft serviceability report prior to flight. The BAF was officially created on 7th June 1944. (IWM, London, photographic archive, CNA 3099)

The Balkan Air Force – Support to the Yugoslav National Liberation Army: air attacks, supplying and evacuation of the wounded and sick to southern Italy (NOVJ base in Bari); El Shatt camp in Egypt; the British and the Yugoslav National Liberation Army’s Air Forces – 1st and 2nd Squadron

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A S.O.E. team awaits evacuation to Italy from Serbia. In addition to the British Military Mission to Mihailović, some 2400 Allied airmen were evacuated from Yugoslavia during WW2. (IWM, London, photographic archive, HU101958A)

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