Janićije Mićić

Janićije Mićić (Rožanstvo, Serbia, 13 August 1874 – Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 17 April 1949) was a highly decorated Serbian career soldier, a participant of the Balkan Wars and the Great War. He was a bearer of two Order of Karađorđe's Star with Swords.

Biography He was born on August 13, 1874, in Rožanstvo, municipality of Čajetina, in the family of caterers Paun and Jelica Mićić. He attended elementary school in Prokuplje and high school in Belgrade and Nis. He completed the Military Academy (Serbia) and the Serbian infantry NCO in 1892 in Belgrade and immediately got the rank of sergeant. As an active officer in the period from February 1900 to July 1906, in the rank of the guide and adjutant, he was serving in the XII regiment of Karađorđe, then in the XIX regiment headquarters in Kragujevac and the IX of the Braničevska county district command. At that time he participated in Chetnik actions in Kumanovo and Kriva Palanka. He was assigned to the Mountain Headquarters and participated in the Fight on Čelopek as an officer leading a Cheta. The Fight on Čelopek (Serbian: Borba na Čelopeku/Борба на Челопеку) or Battle on Čelopek (Bitka/Битка) was fought at the Čelopek plateau near Kozjak between the Serbian Chetniks and Ottoman officers accompanied by Ottoman Albanian bashi-bozuks, on April 16, 1905. In the spring of 1906 in Kragujevac he participated in the clandestine preparation of a coup d'état against the regime at that time, because…Citește mai mult

Gold Medal for Devotional Service Order of the White Eagle (Serbia), 5th Class Order of the White Eagle (Serbia), 4th Class

Albanian Commemorative Medal French Legion of Honor (grade of Chevalier)

Sources Ђенић, Милисав Р. (2014). Споменица знаменитих и заслужних Златибораца. Чајетина: Библиотека Љубиша Р. Ђенић Чајетина. p. 63. ISBN 978-86-84219-41-3.