14.04.2016
Panel Discussion "100 years since landing of the first troops of the Serbian Army in Bizerta"
A panel discussion entitled "100 Years since landing of the first troops of the Serbian Army in Bizerta" was held in the organisation by the Association of Veterans 1912 - 1918 and their descendants and admirers, in the Central Military Club. Disembarkation of the people and the troops in Bizerta and Corfu followed the horrific ordeal experienced during the Albanian Golgotha and long lasting negotiations of the Allies over the disembarkation places and the recovery of the exhausted Serbian troops.The first Serbian soldiers who disembarked from the French ships on the ground of Bizerta were cadets of the 26th class of the Skopje NCO School. From 1916 until the break-up of the Salonika front and the end of the First World War, around 60 000 Serbian soldiers and officers stayed and were treated in North Africa, primarily in Bizerta, Tunisia and Algeria, several thousand of whom remained forever in the African cemeteries.
Maja Nikolov, MSc, a museum advisor and curator of the Pedagogical Museum, and retired Admiral Bosko Antic and publicist Luka Nikolic spoke about the disembarkation of the Serbian troops and refugees in Bizerta and Corfu.
At the beginning of the panel discussion about the disembarkation of the Serbian troops in Tunisia, a documentary film "Call of Africa", written and directed by Dusan Vojvodic, was screened. The panel discussion which was dedicated to difficult and glorious era of the Serbian history has attracted a large number of mostly elderly members of the Warriors’ Association 1912 - 1918 and the young history lovers and admirers of the ventures of the Serbian Army in the First World War.
