Edgar, Here is the e-mail address of Father Draskovic; [email protected]. Ask him if any of the names ring a bell. He is from that area. Good luck!
Best Regards,
Sheila

Many thanks. I will try it. Best wishes Edgar C.

You might want to try the Croation national archives as well since they are almost done microfilming. See our link page.

Many thanks. I will try this but wonder if they have an E-Mail address? The family name is, of course, quite common and they seem to have roots in Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. Regards Edgar Chavasse

Hi,

Yes they have email. If you dont get any reply try snale mail. It should work. Just enclose enough information for them.

Good luck

Good! I will try it out. In fact I found their website after your first message. Regards Edagr Chavasse

Edgar,

In your case it would seem you're looking to get back in touch with old friends and are more interested in where they are now than their heritage, right? It would help if you knew which Italian university Dejan studied law in. Studying law in one country usually ties your career down to that country for a long while, so it's a safe guess that he spent most of his life in Italy. Have you tried alumni pages/sites? Fill me in on these and any other details you may remember about their lives in Italy and I may be able to find them for you.

Best regards,
Danica

Dear Danica, Many thanks for our message and a happy new year. I would be most grateful for any help you can give even 60 years on! You are quite rightin thinking that I am looking for friends from a very disturbed period, rather than relatives. Let me set out what I know. The family Draskovic was resident in Kotor Bokarska until World War II. I believe that the father may have been esecuted by Tito's Communist forces in 1944 and that this was reprted in the local press. The mother moved to Dubrovnik where she was living in mid 1947 when I visited her there whilst still in the Army and attached to The British EmbaSsy in Belgrade. I also visited and photographed Stojan's grave and was told he had been killed in action against the German.s in 1944. As to Dejan I think he was possibly at Bologna University rtaher than, say Padova. He was with a group of Italian Partizans North of Assisi and, afert the liberation fell gravely ill in Gubbio during October 1944. I took his sister over to get him from there and brought him back to Florence where he recovered. That was a hairraising journey by jeep with no windscreen in bad weather. At thetime I was part of a small unit waiting to go into Bologna, bu we never achieved it. Lada was working as a receptionist at The Excelsior Hotel in Florence from after the liberation in 1944 until late 1947 when she may have married an Italian businessman in the hardware business. At that time the Excelsior was an Officers Rest Hotel run by the US Army. Unfortunately all their staff records were lost in the post war flood disaster. The then Manager "Boris" was transfered to the Danieli in Venice but has died sothere are no leads there. That is about all I can say except that I was myself in the Cameron,Highlanders arriving as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 1944 and took part in the 2nd and 3rd battles of Monte Cassino at theageof 19. from there we went to the WEast Cost of Italy and I went to a hopital in Vasto wher we were heavily bombed on Hitler's birthday in April 1944. I then joined A special Forces unitin Monopoli and after a para military course joined a small imtelligence unit in Florence in August 1944. The rest you know. I can send photos if you can receive them. I did so to Father Draskovic but had no response to two e-mails I sent. See thread above. Best Wishes Edgar Chavasse

I will move this post to the "looking for family" forum since it fits there.

Thanks. Edgar Chavasse

Did Danica reply to your email Edgar?

Dear Danica and Seregei, I have succeeded in tracing Lada Draskovic but not her brother,by using a new and reasonably priced search engine "WebseekPro. I think we can now discontinue my message in your "Friends and family" forum. I would like to thank you all for your advice, support and help in trying to follow this one up. Yours very sincerely Edgar Chavasse

OK, good to hear you had succes.

Regards,