Jovo Bećir
General Jovo Bećir | |
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Born | Njeguši, Principality of Montenegro | 14 September 1870
Died | 1942 Jasenovac concentration camp, Independent State of Croatia | (aged 71–72)
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Service/ | Army |
Years of service | 1890–1922 1941 |
Rank | General |
Unit | Herzegovina Detachment |
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Jovo Bećir (Serbian Cyrillic: Јово Бећир; 14 September 1870 – 1942) was a Montenegrin brigadier general and a colonel of the Royal Yugoslav Army.
Biography
[edit]Bećir was a brigadier general in the Royal Montenegrin Army during the Montenegrin Campaign of World War I. On 25 January 1916, he was one of the signatories of the Montenegrin capitulation after the Battle of Mojkovac.
He was a colonel in the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the interwar period. Although retired, he was activated at the beginning of the Invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. After the defeat of the Yugoslav forces, he was captured and then released due to the intervention of Queen Jelena, but after he rejected to take part in the Italian governorate of Montenegro, he was again captured in late 1941 by Croatian fascist units known as the Ustaše and taken to Jasenovac concentration camp where he was killed in 1942.[1]
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- 1870 births
- 1942 deaths
- Military personnel from Cetinje
- Serbs of Montenegro
- People from the Principality of Montenegro
- People of the Kingdom of Montenegro
- 19th-century Montenegrin people
- 20th-century Montenegrin people
- Montenegrin soldiers
- Montenegrin military personnel of the Balkan Wars
- Montenegrin military personnel of World War I
- World War I prisoners of war held by Austria-Hungary
- Royal Yugoslav Army personnel of World War II
- People who died in Jasenovac concentration camp
- People executed by the Independent State of Croatia
- Yugoslav military personnel killed in World War II
- Yugoslav people executed in Nazi concentration camps