He was embedded with the Serbian Supreme Command in Greece where he captured through photography and painting battle scenes of the Salonika front.
Meanwhile, his son Dragoljub Pavlović graduated from an icon-painting school in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in the town of Sergiyev Posad near Moscow and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and later worked as a professor at the Theological Faculty of Saint Sava of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade.
Photos from the Macedonian front documented the positions of the Serbian forces in the stretch of the Danube Division, where Pavlović was based, from 1916 until 1918.
[2] The breakthrough of the Salonika front from 14 to 21 September 1918 is reflected in the view of strategic spots, capturing Bulgarian officers and soldiers and marches on the Veles-Skopje stretch.
Success resulted in the liberation of Serbia and Montenegro and the future Yugoslav ethnic area, but the losses were enormous—42,725 persons killed or wounded during the Thessaloniki offensive.