Do you have a family tree or some more data?

hi

i have very little info i will tell everything that i know and hopefully someone might be able to give a little more info as i would dearly love to know more.
his name was dragutin gostic born kaprivna and was a serbian orthodox his parents names were milan and bosiljka,he was in the army and his regiment loyal to king and general mihailovich.then as far as i was told after the partisan over run the regiment he managed to get out of yugoslavia through to italy.i have his dp card dated 1947 and he was in seedorf camp british zone.he later came to england and was never able to go back to yugoslavia as he said he was classed as a traitor by titos government.But he never went into details.i know he brothers milutin and george and also 4 sisters.he never saw any of them again apart from milutin who i remember visiting england in the 1970s.

regards gostic

You should write to the archives and Serbian Orthodox Churches. We do offer membership for people where people can download letter templates and such. Also, we have one member who's grandfather served under General Mihajlovic so you do have something in common and he is already moving ahead with his research.

thankyou for your answer,i have written to the church.i have my aunt calling with papers that my grandfather had so i will wait to see what these are before i go to the archives,as i have been in touch with them and they informed me that the records of displaced persons are not very easy to find for a particular person,after the war.i have been in touch with your member through his website and he has been a great help to me and it was him that suggested this site.
thankyou again
gostic

hi again

i was hoping someone would be able to clear things for me,on grandads dp papers his birthplace is koprivna,but today i recieved an email of my uncle in australia filling me in with grandads war record as such and he mentions kozuhe as being the place his dad(grandad)was born,is this the same place?or area?ive tried to find out on maps but with no luck.
my aunt also has his papers for me which i will recieve in the next day or two so im hoping this will give me more info.but does anyone know of kozuhe or koprivna? i know his father was a farmer and they lived in a village.and the name gostic is this from the area ive mentioned.

many thanks gostic

Are you sure its kaprivna and not koprivna? Big difference

hi sergej

thankyou for pointing that out (-D thats me all over misspelling things.its koprivna.ive written the name many times i dont know how i managed to make it kaprivna.....but it is definetly koprivna.

best wishes gostic

Hi Gostic - Checked the receipt for money. It appears that your grandad was paying into the combatants fund. This turns things round as I had assumed they were getting money from the association for aid in ressetlement. They were paying money in the hope of gaining enough strength to return home and at ÂЈ1 a donation would have been a considerable amount in those days.

There are several villages in Serbia and Bosnia with the name Kopriva, where was he from, Serbia?

hi sergej
his village was in bosnia though he was serbian.

gostic

hi andy

thankyou for that i know you said you thought it was a payment card kinda thing,and i wondered what he would have been paying into,thankyou for your help again

best wishes pat

You should then try with the Serbian Orthodox Church and http://www.arhivsa.ba/

thankyou i will try them with the link that you sent

regards pat

Hi Pat - Still trying to read paperwork but this in crylic. Keep getting the word HONOURED. Try attach here for accurate reading.
Also try Ravne Gore Hotel in London. They may have records and have a combatatants website.
Andy