BORISLAV BORO AVDALOVI\u0106, son of URO\u0160, born in 1913* in Bjelajac near Mrkonji\u0107 Grad*. Non-commissioned officer musician, lived and worked in Mostar. Described as an intellectual. After the capitulation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941, he went to Avtovac near Gacko, where he, along with Obren and Mi\u0107o Bjelogrli\u0107, formed the Avtovac cell (Boro was the secretary). He was admitted as a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) there. A fighter of the Mostar Battalion, he joined the insurgent units in the summer of 1941, and from August 1942, he became the head of agitation and propaganda in the 1st Battalion of the 10th Herzegovina Brigade. He was killed in autumn 1942 in Zagori\u010dani near Livno. He was remembered as a “cheerful and always ready for a joke comrade.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From a newspaper article from 1945, we learn from Mladen’s mother Jelena: “In November, her eldest son Boro, a fighter of the Tenth Herzegovina Brigade, was killed. It was a snowy, foggy night in the village of Zagori\u010dani when the partisans were fighting against superior Ustasha bands. Boro was in the vanguard. A bullet hit him in the stomach. He remained dead on his spot.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About Boro’s personality and death, it was recorded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In early November (1942, note), the entire brigade moved to the territory of Glamo\u010d. We celebrated the Day of the Great October Revolution lined up in Glamo\u010d in front of the command of the Fourth Operational Zone. When the brigade moved to the Jajce area, the battalion remained in Glamo\u010d for the whole of November and conducted minor actions towards Livno and Duvno, protecting the liberated territory. In one of those actions in Zagori\u010dani, Boro Avdalovi\u0107, always cheerful and ready for a joke comrade, was killed. He especially enjoyed joking and conversing with old \u0106etko A\u0161krabi\u0107. Their discussions about whether the earth is round will be remembered for a long time, which caused \u0106etko trouble and compelled him to verify the matter even with the battalion commissar.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the National Liberation War (NOB), Boro’s sister Radmila Avdalovi\u0107<\/a> and younger brother Mladen Avdalovi\u0107<\/a> were also killed. The newspaper “Borba” published a moving interview with their mother Jelena in the “Our Heroic Mothers” section in 1945. You can read the article here<\/a> (in BSC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n * According to the family members, Boro was born in 1913. The date showing as 1915 in the book “Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945” would be incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BORISLAV BORO AVDALOVI\u0106, son of URO\u0160, born in 1913* in Bjelajac near Mrkonji\u0107 Grad*. Non-commissioned officer musician, lived and worked in Mostar. Described as an intellectual. After the capitulation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941, he went to Avtovac near Gacko, where he, along with Obren and Mi\u0107o Bjelogrli\u0107, formed the Avtovac cell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20972,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[318,331,316],"tags":[339,317,330],"prezime":[313],"class_list":["post-11745","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-26-35-g-en","category-poginuli-1942-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","tag-avdalovic-en","tag-bataljon-en","tag-foto-en","prezime-a-en","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_partizan_izvori":" grupa autora (1961): Hercegovina u NOB 1. dio<\/a>, Beograd; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.; grupa autora (1986): Hercegovina u NOB\u00a0 2. dio<\/a>, Beograd; http:\/\/istorijskenovine.unilib.rs\/view\/index.html#panel:pp|issue:UB_00064_19450222|page:4|query:1941%20%D0%BC%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD<\/a><\/p>\r\n Photo of the memorial plaque<\/em>: S. 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Until the formation of the 13th Herzegovina Brigade in May 1944, 827 fighters passed through the Battalion, and 445 of them perished, including 211 from Mostar. Of the 86 women, 43 were killed. Mostar residents also fought in many other units of the NOVJ (People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia) and among the ranks of the activists of the National Liberation War in Mostar and other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina... According to the records of the organization SUBNOR Mostar, every third citizen was an activist of the National Liberation War, 670 fighters were killed, 1517 were victims of fascist terror, and 206 were civilian war victims. D\u017eemil \u0160arac, article \"Sa Mostarcima\" (\"With the People from Mostar\"), Hercegovina No. 9, p. 221.\r\n\r\n\"And we were all young. Those of us who were 17, 18 years old, some seemed old even though they were not older than 25. The ones over 30 were rare. 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