The Red Cross of Serbia was formed in 1876 and was the recognised by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the same year. The first Serbian Red Cross decoration was established in 1877, when Serbia was a Principality. After 1882, when Serbia became a Kingdom, the design of the cross was replaced with the type shown here, which was awarded throughout the First World War. The Cross was awarded to men and women, Serbian or foreign, for taking an active role in the nursing of the wounded in wartime. During peacetime, the ribbon was white, but when awarded during wartime, the ribbon was mainly white with red stripes near the edges. When the war broke out in 1914, Serbia and Austria, who produced many medal and order types for Serbia, broke relations, and Serbia then sourced production and supply of these Crosses from the firms of Arthus Bertrand, of France, and Huguenin Freres, of Switzerland. Also shown are the presentation case for the award and a couple of examples of miniatures for the same award. The award certificate shown here, as titled, comes in the name of King Peter I, and was awarded to French citizen, Marcelle Antoine Vignier, of the Paris suburb of Sannois. The certificate is dated May 1921, and it was not uncommon for people to be awarded certificates some years after the end of the war. A minor anomaly is that, at the top left of the certificate, it shows the design of the old-style Cross, which was only in use from 1877 through 1882, after which the new design, as shown here and used throughout the First Worlds War, was adopted. || A Cross of the Red Cross Society of the Kingdom of Serbia, where the red enameled cross has a heraldic, Serbian eagle on the front and '1876', the year of the foundation of the Serbian Rec Cross Society, on the reverse, with a crown above the cross. A presentation case for the Cross of the Red Cross Society of the Kingdom of Serbia award. Two miniatures of the Cross of the Red Cross Society of the Kingdom of Serbia. An award certificate for the Cross of the Red Cross Society of the Kingdom of Serbia given to a French citizen.

The First World War left behind many broken lives and bodies among the survivors. This medal was awarded by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, successor state of the Kingdom of Serbia that was involved in the First World War, plus various other territories liberated mainly from Austro-Hungary, and it went to war invalids and hospitalised officers. It is in the form of a cross on top of a pair of diagonally-crossed flags. On one side is, in profile, on the left, French Marshal Franchet D'Esperey, and, on the right, King Alexander, who was Prince Regent of Serbia during the First World War. D'Esperey ended up commanding the Allied Army of the Orient which was successful in pushing back the Bulgarians on the Salonika Front and for which the grateful Kingdom of Yugoslavia made him an honorary Field Marshal in 1921. On the other side is the Serbian Cyrillic text, 'КЛУБ ОФИЦИРА ИНВАЛИДА И РАТНИКА БОЛЕСНИХ И ОСАКАЋЕНИХ - ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА ЗАХВАЛНОСТ', which transliterates as 'Klub Oficira Invalida i Ratnika Bolesnih i Osakacenih - Jugoslavija Zahvalnost', and which translates to 'Officers Club for Invalids of War, Sick and Disabled - a Grateful Yugoslavia'. This medal was created over a decade after the end of the First World War. Also shown is a diploma issued in 1938 by the same association to thank a certain V. Gajic for their charitable work on behalf of the association. The decorative design features patterns used in Serbian embroidery on the borders, a Royal Yugoslavian eagle at the top, as well as French and Serbian monuments, and also a pair of French and Kingdom of Yugoslavian flags near the bottom, laying over various weaponry including rifles, cannons, sabres, and holstered pistols. || Kingdom of Yugoslavia Commemorative Cross of the Association of War Invalids

Commemorative Medal for the Liberation of the Northern Regions of Yugoslavia 1918/19, and a cap badge of the Slovenian-led, and majority Slovene, 'Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes' forces used late 1918 to around mid-1919 || The Medal for the Liberation of the Northern Regions of Yugoslavia 1918/19 was established in 1939 and was to be awarded to all of those, both military and civilian, who were involved in the liberation of the Slovenian regions of the northern part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, later to become the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929. The purpose of the military actions of late 1918, early 1919, was to establish a demarcation line between what would remain of Austria and the bordering province of Slovenia, and that raised a question over the future of Austria's southern provinces of Carinthia and Styria, which was under consideration in the Paris peace conference. By spring 1919, the Austrians had managed to push back, in part, the majority Slovene forces, and it took the intervention of several regiments of Serbian forces to back up the Slovenes to beat back and turn away the Austrians. The border issue was finally settled by a plebiscite in June 1919 where the first of two Austrian zones voted to stay within Austria, rendering a vote in the second zone redundant. One one side of the medal is a Royal Yugoslavian eagle looking over several, symbolic heraldic shields and, on the other side, in Serbian Latin script, the text 'SPOMENICA NA BORBE ZA OSLOBOĐENJE SEVERNIH KRAJEVA JUGOSLAVIJE 1918-19', and which translates to 'Commemoration of the Struggle to Liberate the Northern Territories of Yugoslavia 1918-19', with laurel and oak branches surrounding this and a torch at the top. The medal show here is predominantly red with white and blue edgings, which was the type awarded for military personnel. Civilian versions had ribbons that were predominantly blue, with red and white edgings. Also shown is a short-lived cap badge that was worn by the self-declared 'Serb, Croats, and Slovenes' forces during this time, which did not include the Serbian Army to begin with, but did include ethnic Serbs living outside of Serbia, as well as Croats and Slovenes, the latter of whom made up the majority of this force. By the first half of 1919, the Serbian Army had joined up with the allied 'Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes' forces, and which would become the armed forces of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The cap badge has a round, metal back, woven red cloth insert, and the initials 'S.H.S.', the acronym of 'Srbe, Hrvate, i Slovence', which stood for 'Serbss, Croat, and Slovenes'.