Yugoslav Army Outside the Homeland

A group of high-ranking officers led by the Prime Minister and Army General Dušan Simović, the Minister of the Army and Navy Bogoljub Ilić and the Commander of the Air Force, Brigadier General Borivoje Mirković together with members of the government and King Peter II left the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 15 April 1941 from Nikšić via Greece for Palestine and Egypt.

[1] On 21 July 1941, General Ilić submitted a report to Prime Minister Simović, on the number of members of the exiled army in Cairo.

It joined the British squadron, which defended the wider region of Alexandria, rescued fallen and stray crews and discovered enemy vessels.

[1] At the end of April 1942, the hydro squadron ceased combat operations due to the dilapidation of the seaplanes with which they flew in from Yugoslavia, and the new allies did not assign them.

The Supreme Command of the Royal Army had a Guards Battalion, composed of prisoners from Istria and the Slovenian Littoral, an air force and a naval detachment.

[1] Mass cancellation of obedience to the elders and defections to the Overseas Brigades of the National Liberation Army were daily occurrences after 1 January 1944.