{"id":184528,"date":"2025-08-12T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=184528"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:10:57","slug":"remembrance-of-heroism-and-sacrifice-gujon-unveils-monument-to-milunka-savic-and-serbian-officers-from-world-war-i-in-malta-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/remembrance-of-heroism-and-sacrifice-gujon-unveils-monument-to-milunka-savic-and-serbian-officers-from-world-war-i-in-malta-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBRANCE OF HEROISM AND SACRIFICE: Gujon Unveils Monument to Milunka Savi\u0107 and Serbian Officers from World War I in Malta! (PHOTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the southern coast of Malta, 107 years after the sinking of a French transport ship carrying Serbian cadets and the legendary Milunka Savi\u0107<\/strong>, tribute was paid to heroes whose suffering united the Serbian and Maltese people in a friendship that lasts to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arno Gujon<\/strong>, Director of the Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Government of Serbia, unveiled a monument dedicated to the tragic shipwreck of Serbian soldiers on the French ship “Le Polynesien<\/strong>” in Maltese waters during World War I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It was August 10, 1918. A German torpedo, at exactly 11 AM, sank the French transport ship, which was carrying our youngest officers sailing from Bizerte toward the battlefields of the Salonika Front. The ship was carrying 500 Serbian officer cadets, accompanied by Second Lieutenant Tajsi\u0107 and the famous war heroine, Sergeant Milunka Savi\u0107<\/strong>, the Serbian ‘Joan of Arc.’ At least 17 people died, including 11 members of the French crew, Second Lieutenant Tajsi\u0107, and two Serbian cadets, while most of the survivors, including Milunka Savi\u0107, were rescued and cared for in Malta. She and her comrades received the necessary assistance and survived largely thanks to the generosity of that generation of Maltese people,” Gujon emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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