This is a postcard of Serbian Chetnik leader Dragutin Jovanovic-Lune, who carried rank within that organisation of ‘Vojvoda’, which is a Serbian Chetnik guerilla rank of leader, and differs from the Serbian Army rank of Vojvoda, which equates to Field Marshall. He became a Chetnik guerrilla in 1911 to fight against the Ottomans in ‘Old Serbia’, and he would also fight in the First and Second Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 respectively. He joined Chetnik leader Vojvoda Vuk at the outbreak of the First World War and, in October 1914, in Bosnia, he captured 10 Austro-Hungarian officers and almost 300 NCO’s and regular soldiers of that same army. Vojvoda Lune and many other Chetnik irregulars carried out guerrilla warfare and sabotage against the occupying forces, as well as gathering intelligence for military purposes and, when working with the Serbian army itself, they would form vanguard units that faced the enemy head on. After the war, he became a member of parliament and was later killed, in 1932, shot dead by a police agent who was checking his luggage at a train station and with whom Lune got into a fight. Some claim a conspiracy behind his death involving a rival Chetnik leader. He was heavily decorated, including with the Karageorge Star with Swords, also twice with the golden version of the former, which was awarded to non-officers, the Obilic medal for Bravery, the Greek medal for courage, the French War Cross, and others. On the postcard is written, in Serbian Cyrillic, ‘ЧЕТНИЧКИ ВОЈВОДА ДРАГ. ЈОВАНОВИЋ-ЛУНЕ’, which transliterates as ‘CETNICKI VOJVODA DRAG. JOVANOVIC-LUNE’, and which translates to ‘Chetnik Leader Drag. Jovanovic-Lune’. || Postcard of Chetnik leader Dragutin Jovanovic-Lune

This is a postcard showing three of the Black Hand conspirators, namely Misko Jovanovic, Danilo Ilic, and Veljko Cubrilovic. The title reads, in Serbian, ‘TRI JUNAKA - TRI SOKOLA’, which translates into English as ‘Three Heroes - Three Falcons’. The ‘VIDOVDAN 1914’ refers to St.Vitus Day, 28 June of 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. Jovanovic, Ilic, and Cubrilovic were executed together on the same day at Sarajevo barracks on 3 February 1915. On the back of the postcard is the Serbian text ‘Ova tri brata nasa osudjeni su po austriji. sudovima na smrt i obeseni u Sarajevu, dne 3. februara 1915 g. radi atentata Franju Ferdinanda’, which translates to English as ‘These three brothers of ours were sentenced by an Austrian court to death and hanged in Sarajevo on 3 February 1915, for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand’. || 'Black Hand' postcard

The first postcard is of Gavrilo Princip, in his Terezin fortress prison cell (number 1), where he would be shackled to a wall for most of the rest of his short life, lose an arm by amputation because of skeletal tuberculosis, and eventually die in there having wasted away down to around 40 kilos. This card was printed by Jakob Kappon, of Sarajevo, Kingdom of S.H.S. ('Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca', translating as 'Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes'), later to become the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, within the first decade after the end of the war. The second postcard is of Gavrilo Princip (name written on the card in Serbian Cyrillic as 'ГАВРИЛО ПРИНЦИП') and the 'St.Vitus Day Heroes' ('Видовдански хероји' in Cyrillic), plus 'Black Hand' co-conspirators, Danilo Ilic (written as 'ДАНИЛО ИЛИЂ') and Trifko Grabez (written as 'ТРИФКО ГРАБЕЖ'). Princip died in April 1918, not executed on account of being too young for capital punishment but instead receiving a long sentence, Ilic was executed by hanging at Sarajevo barracks in 1915, and Grabez, being under-age like Princip, received a prison sentence instead and, like Princip, died in jail of tuberculosis. || A couple of postcards dating from 1919 through to around 1929, one showing Gavrilo Princip, who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 28 June 1914, and the other postcard shows Princip and a couple of his 'Black Hand' co-conspirators.