Miša Aleksić-Marinko
Miša Aleksić-Marinko
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Birth name | Milan Aleksić |
Nickname(s) | Miša, Marinko |
Born | 1876 Raška region, Ottoman Empire (now Serbia) |
Died | May 27, 1923 (aged 47) Zrenjanin, Kingdom of Serbia (now Serbia) |
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Years of service | 1904–1918 |
Unit | Stefan Nedić-Ćela's band |
Milan Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Алексић), nicknamed Miša (Миша), known by his nom de guerre Marinko (Маринко), was a Serbian Chetnik active from 1905 to 1918.[1] He was born in Raška, at the time part of the Ottoman Empire.[1] He fled Ottoman tyranny to Kuršumlija, in the Kingdom of Serbia.[1] He finished the Military Academy as a non-commissioned officer.[1] He joined the Serbian Chetnik Organization in 1905, fighting under Jovan Babunski and Gligor Sokolović in Poreč and on the Babuna against Bulgarian and Albanian bands.[1] He was an assistant of the Upper Staff of Panta Radosavljević-Dunavski, Nikola Janković-Kosovski and Pavle Blažarić as a non-commissioned officer. In 1908, he worked with Vojislav Tankosić in training volunteers in Bosnia.[1] He is regarded a hero in all wars between 1912 and 1918, during which he had the rank of lieutenant colonel.[1] He wore an Albanian costume during battle in order to confuse the enemy.[1] He died of exhaustion in Veliki Bečkerek (modern Zrenjanin), in Banat, on May 27, 1923.[1]
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Chetniks during the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia (1908), Marinko is noted as (2)
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Stefan Nedić-Ćela and his band, Marinko laying at the right
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