Hi and welcome:)

First of all we need to know :

-whether he served in the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( that would be before 1941) - these soldiers when the war broke out mainly  joined the royalist chetniks movement and since they lost  to communist Yugoslav Peoples Liberation Army, after 1945. they fled the country, spent time in displaced persons camps and emigrated further.

-or not.

All military records of all armies are in the army archives in Belgrade:

http://www.isi.mod.gov.rs/vojni_arhiv02/index.php?lang=en

I can  contact them and see if there is a way  to request  a lookup that they will do on your behalf. If that is not an option, I will forward  you the contact details of the "Rodoslovlje" approved local researcher you can hire.

Also as a descendant, if  he spent time in a displaced persons camp, you should definitely contact International Tracing Service archive and request information:

http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/archives/collection/organisation/displaced_persons/index.html

online application form :

http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/requests_of_victims_and_family_members/application_forms/online_form/index.html

People born in XX century should not be too hard to track down in the available records in their country/place of origin - but for Serbs with surname TOMIĆ - your options without knowing his place of birth include almost all successor states of former Yugoslavia.

 I might try getting a copy of his immigration papers from our National Archives - that might give me his actual place of birth.

He would have been in the army pre 1941. From what I've been told, I don't think he spent time in a displaced persons camp.

Thank you for the reply 

Yes, the immigration documents will list his place of birth. When you obtain these documents  you can  post new info here or send me an email on

[email protected]

It took some time but I finally got the Immigration application documents for Maksim Tomic. Additional/new information obtained from them is: sorry the documents are handwritten so some spelling may be wrong

Born: 12 April 1911 in Paka-SL Pozega distr SL Pozega, Yugoslavia

Religion: Orthodox

Residences and Occupation: 1938 -  February1941, Lordrica (?), distr SL Pozega, Yugoslavia - Farmer

                   Feb - April 1941, Mladenovac, Yugoslavia  - Soldier

                   Apr 1941 - Dec 1943, Maz, Forbach, Stalag XII E and XII F, Germany  - P.O.W worked by Farmers

                   Dec 1943 - Oct 1943, Berg, Germany - P.O.W worked by Farmers

                   Oct 1943 - Dec 1944, Metz, Germany - P.O.W worked by Farmers .... Liberated Dec 1944

                   Apr 1945 - Sept 1946, DP Camp Hagen, Germany - Ex P.O.W. ..... Joined C.M.W.S in Sept 1946

                   1947 - 1950, C.M.W.S. post 323 Hannover, Germany

School: 1918 - 1920, Primary School, Paka distr. SL Pozega, Yugoslavia

Language(s): Serbian

Displace Persons Number: 280912

Any help at all would be very gratefully received.

Kath

please send me the scans of any documents you received to my email:  [email protected]

I will check the records with this new information and let you know if any records of interest are available online and how you can contact the archives you need for your research.