Momcilo was a boy from Trbusnica near Loznica, the boy who survived the Golgotha of 1914-1918 with the Serbian army and its people, was only ei...ght years old when the war began and the Austro-Hungarian soldiers butcherd almost all of the members of his large family. In August 1914 Austro-Hungarian soldiers butcherd his father, mother, three sisters, four brothers, grandmother and burned his house to the ground.
He was the eighth child of Alympius and Jelena Gavric. In early August 1914., Austro-Hungarian soldiers of the CROATIAN HOME GUARD 42ND DIVISION, known as the "Devil", butcherd his father, mother, three sisters, four brothers and a grandmother, and burned his house to the ground. Momcilo survived thanks to his father, who sent him with his uncle to find a carriage. Left without anyone, he went on Gučevo, where he found the Sixth Artillery Regiment Drina Division, under the command of Stevan Tucović brother Demetrije Tucović.
Kada im je mališan ispričao šta se dogodilo, srpski vojnici su istog dana osvetili njegovu porodicu. Momčilo je postao vojnik u njihovim redovima, a major Tucović naredio je da se dečaku omogući da svakog dana tri puta opali iz topa, da bi tako osvetio svoje najbliže.
When the little boy told major Tucović what happened to him and his family, he was immediatly allowed to join the Serbain army ranks and ordered that the boy be given to fire from cannon every day three times a day so he can avenge his loved ones.
In the fall of 1916, Momcilo met Archibald Reiss, who gave him his watch and pocket knife, which can be seen in the famous photograph of the boy reporting on Mount Kajmakcalan. While waiting to breakthrough at the front and return to Serbia, Momcilo learned to read and write. After the war he went to England, where he graduated from high school in London, and in 1921 he returned to Belgrade. While he was serving in the regular army in Slavonian Pozega, Momcilo experienced discomfort and the was arrest by the officers of the royal army, that is by the former Austrian officer, because they did not believe him that he had four years of war behind him and to have been awardered the Albanian memorial.
Momcilo participated in almost all of the major battles of the Serbian army, survived what many older than him could not. With his regiment, as a ten year old, on foot crossed Albania and came to Corfu. He was the youngest corporal in the world. In the breakthrough of the Salonika front he was wounded and Duke Zivojin Misic advanced him to the rank of sergeant.
During the Second World War, the German occupiers imprisoned him twice in the camp, and the partisans brought him before the firing squad. The great English philanthropist Lady Leila Paget called him Serbian knight, and the Greeks afixed a gold plaque in his honour at Corfu. French President Mitterrand in 1985 awarded him medal and General Lepardije told him "Too bad you were not a French soldier, you would have a monument on the Champs Elysées." He died in Belgrade in 1993.
Unfortunately this Serbian HERO till this day has no monument, not a single street, park or school carries his name
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