Darinka Mirković Borović (18 January 1896 – 8 February 1979) was a Montenegrin nurse during

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

and a bearer of the

Albanian Commemorative Medal The Commemorative Medal of the Great Serbian Retreat or Commemorative Medal for Loyalty to the Fatherland 1915 ( sr, Споменица за верност отаџбини 1915), better known as the Albanian Commemorative Medal (Serbian: Алб ...

Biography

Darinka Mirković Borović was born in

Pljevlja Pljevlja ( srp, Пљевља, ) is a town and the center of Pljevlja Municipality located in the northern part of Montenegro. The town lies at an altitude of . In the Middle Ages, Pljevlja had been a crossroad of the important commercial roads and ...

on 18 January 1896. There, she met a young lieutenant of the Serbian army, Stanislav Staš Milovanović, from Belgrade. After marriage in the summer of 1914, they moved to

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. After receiving medical training, she helped the wounded in the Valjevo Hospital and on the battlefields. She survived the crossing to Albania and in 1917, she reached

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, where wounded and sick Serbian soldiers were evacuated. In Marseille, she met Petar Borovic, born in

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, who worked in the Allied medical treatment. They married in 1920 in Belgrade, where they continued to live. Borović was active in humanitarian societies and the

Circle of Serbian Sisters The Circle of Serbian Sisters ( sr-Latn, Kolo Srpskih Sestara) was a women's charitable society established in Belgrade in 1903. Among the founders of the society were Mabel Grujić, wife of Slavko J. Grujić, Blanš Vesnić, wife of Milenko Ve ...

, She was a great friend of

Queen Maria of Yugoslavia Maria of Yugoslavia (born Princess Maria of Romania; 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961), known in Serbian as Marija Karađorđević ( sr-cyr, Марија Карађорђевић), was Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Queen of Yugo ...

. Borović helped organize many charity events to raise funds for hospitals, schools, and orphanages. She died on 8 February 1979 in Belgrade and is buried in the

Belgrade New Cemetery The New Cemetery ( sr, Ново гробље, ''Novo groblje'') is a cemetery complex in Belgrade, Serbia, with a distinct history. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christian ...

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