Royal Serbian Army

Royal Serbian Army
Field uniforms of the Serbian Army during the Balkan Wars.
Active	1882–1918
Country	Kingdom of Serbia
Type	Army

The Army of the Kingdom of Serbia (Serbian: Војска Краљевине Србије), known in English as the Royal Serbian Army, was the army of the Kingdom of Serbia that existed between 1882 and 1918, succeeding the Army of the Principality of Serbia and preceding the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Organization

• First Army (Serbia)
• Second Army (Serbia)
• Third Army (Serbia)
• Timok Army
• Užice Army

Wars

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885)	Serbia	Bulgaria	Defeat Recognition of the Bulgarian unification.
First Balkan War (1912–13)	Serbia  Bulgaria  Greece  Montenegro	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of London Outbreak of the Second Balkan War.
Second Balkan War (1913)	Serbia  Romania  Greece  Montenegro  Ottoman Empire	Bulgaria	Victory Treaty of Bucharest (1913).
Serbian Campaign (World War I) (1914–18)	Serbia  Russian Empire British Empire France  Italy  Romania  Greece  Montenegro	Austria-Hungary  Bulgaria  Ottoman Empire  German Empire	Victory Serbia regained its independence. The collapse of Bulgaria. Treaty of Neuilly Treaty of Bucharest (1918)

Military equipment

Armament

Weapon	In use	Notes
Rifles
Mauser-Koka	1881–1907+	110,000 units. Known as kokinka (pl. kokinke). Upgraded Mauser Model 1871.
Mauser-Koka 1884	1884–?	4,000 units. Upgraded M71/84.
Mauser M1890	–1918
Mauser M1893 and M1903	–1918
Mauser M1899, M1899/07 and M1899/08	–1918
Mauser-Koka-Đurić	1907–18	Upgraded Mauser-Koka.
Mauser M1910	–1918
Berdan #1 and #2	–1918	75,000 units. Known as berdanka (pl. berdanci, berdanke).
Mauser Model 1889	–1918	known as belgijanka (pl. belgijanke)
Berthier M1907/15	1915–18
Gras M1874	–1918
Lebel M1886	–1918
Mosin–Nagant M1891	–1918
Machine guns
Chauchat	–1918	3,838 units.
Lewis	–1918
Maxim	–1918
MG 08	–1918
Schwarzlose	–1918	[1]
Handguns
Chamelot-Delvigne M1873 and M1874	–1918
Gasser M1870	–1918
Nagant M1895	–1918
Ruby M1914	–1918
Grenades
Vasić M1904/12	–1918

Uniform

• Šajkača

See also

• Order of battle of the Serbian Army in the First Balkan War
• First Serbian Volunteer Division (military force)
• Serbian Chetnik Organization

References

1. Willbanks, James H. (1 January 2004). Machine Guns: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. ABC-CLIO. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-85109-480-6.

Sources

• W. H. Crawfurd Price (1918). Serbia's Part in the War ... Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company. (Public Domain)