WW1 Cemetery - Serbian Military Cemetery in Bitola

In the Serbian military cemetery in Bitola are collected remains of many deceased Serbian soldiers during the Balkan Wars and the First World War.
Serbian military cemetery is located in the southern part of Bitola, as a continuation of the so-called “Bukovski” orthodox cemetery.
Within the cemetery are located 1321 metal crosses with numbers that mark the burial place. However, it is important to emphasize that under the crosses there are no buried soldiers, but they are stored in bags, behind a wall, in the ossuary under the central monument.
Building of the memorial ossuary began in 1926, according to the plan of the architect Momir Korunovik.
Decades ago, some medical students from Bitola used to “borrow” the bags from the ossuary for their medical studies, so decision was made to place a protective wall in the ossuary.