Popovic, Zarko Rista

  1. Popovic, Zarko Rista
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1896 Born, Belgrade, Serbia 1905 1912 Attended Cadet School in Odessa, Russia. Graduated Military Academy (Artillery) in Petrograd, Russia 1914 1919 Served Serbian army in Serbia; twice wounded in action 1919 1921 Member of the Serbian military mission in Sofia, Bulgaria 1921 1923 Attended the Ecole supérieure de guerre in Paris, France 1924 1927 Served with a regiment in the Yugoslav Army, deployed to the general staff college in Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1927 1932 General staff officer on various assignments with the Yugoslav army, including a detail as Aide de Camp to His Majesty King Alexander of Yugoslavia 1932 1935 Military attaché in Rome, Italy 1935 1936 Chief of staff for an infantry division in Yugoslavia 1936 1940 Director of intelligence, general staff, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1940 1941 Military Attaché in Moscow, U.S.S.R. 1941 1942 Director of intelligence, Yugoslav Force in Egypt 1942 Expelled from the Yugoslav Military after the Yugoslav army "Cairo Affair" 1942 1948 Commissioned by British military authority; served as Colonel with the British Forces in the Middle East in Egypt 1948 1949 Co-partner and chief translator at a translating office in London 1951 1952 Worked as an inspector with a South African insurance company in Nairobi, Kenya 1989 Died

From the guide to the Zarko Rista Popovic Papers, 1917-1980, (Hoover Institution Archives)
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