Title
Prince Alexander of Serbia, World War I
Caption
Prince Alexander of Serbia (1888-1934). Participates in the First Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire (1912-1913), then in the First World War, during which Serbia is crushed and occupied after 1915. Regent of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croates and Slovenes since 1918, he becomes the king after his father, Peter I, dies in 1921, under the name of Alexander II of Serbia or Alexander I of Yugoslavia. He is assassinated on the ship La Cannebiere, in Marseille, at the same time as Louis Barthou, French Minister of Foriegn Affairs.
Painting by Vladimir Betzitch
Info+
Photo12.com - Elk-Opid
Date
1914
Credit line
Photo12/Collection Jaime Abecasis
Reference
LKO07031_014
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
6,2Mb (1,1Mb) / 4,1in x 5,9in / 1227 x 1780 (300dpi)