Momčilo Gavrić

Stella Sopling has fond memories of her grandfather, who used to tell her stories of his childhood in Faversham. He had not been a model student at the old grammar school, and he had many anecdotes that he should not have passed on to her. Stella’s favorites concerned his classmate,  Momčilo Gavrić,  who had been the youngest soldier to fight in the First World War. Orphaned when Austro-Hungarian soldiers had massacred his family, he joined the Serbian army, aged eight, and effected his revenge by revealing the location of the imperial unit.  Eventually, at the age of ten, he was promoted to the rank of Corporal. Stella still owns an exquisite silver filigree brooch that Gavrić designed thirty years later.