14 Facts About Serbian campaign

Serbian campaign was the series of campaigns launched against Serbia at the beginning of the First World War.

The first Serbian campaign began after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on 28 July 1914.

Second Serbian campaign was launched, under German command, almost a year later, on 6 October 1915, when Bulgarian, Austrian, and German forces, led by Field Marshall August von Mackensen, successfully invaded Serbia from three sides, pre-empting the Allied advance from Salonica to help Serbia.

Serbian campaign Army declined severely from about 420, 000 at its peak to about 100, 000 at the moment of liberation.

The Serbian campaign troops did not have service issued boots at all, and the vast majority of them wore everyday footwear made of pig skin called opanak.

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Unlike the Austro-Hungarian and the Serbian campaign armies, the Montenegrin army was a militia type without proper military training or a career officer's corps.

Serbian campaign started on 28 July 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and her artillery shelled Belgrade the following day.

Two Serbian campaign divisions lost around 11, 000 men, while Austro-Hungarian losses were probably comparable.

Serbian campaign casualties reached 100 soldiers a day from all causes in some divisions.

In one such attack, the Serbian campaign Army used mine warfare for the first time: the Combined Division dug tunnels beneath the Austro-Hungarian trenches, planted mines and set them off just before an infantry charge.

Serbian campaign insisted on a deep withdrawal in order to give the troops some much-needed rest and to shorten the front.

The only flaw in the victory was that much of the Serbian campaign Army had successfully retreated, although it was left very disorganized and required rebuilding.

Serbian campaign army was evacuated to Greece and joined up with the Allied Army of the Orient.

French and Serbian campaign forces re-took limited areas of Macedonia by recapturing Bitola on 19 November 1916 as a result of the costly Monastir Offensive, which brought stabilization of the front.