Milivoje Trbić ( sr-cyr, Миливоје Трбић), known as Vojče (Војче) or Voja (Воја), was a Yugoslav army captain (''kapetan'') and member of the
Chetniks
The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist m ...
during
World War II in Yugoslavia.
Trbić was born in
Prilep,
Kingdom of Serbia
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(now in
North Macedonia
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). His father,
Chetnik commander (''vojvoda'')
Vasilije Trbić (1881–1962), was a veteran who had commanded
guerrilla
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bands in the Macedonian Struggle (1904–08) and
Balkan Wars
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(1912–13). Following the
Yugoslav coup d'état in March 1941, Vasilije Trbić was overtly antagonistic towards the political and military leaders of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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, whom he blamed for the
Axis invasion of the country. Milivoje Trbić had the rank of captain (''kapetan'') in the
Royal Yugoslav Army. He was sent by the HQ of the
Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland to the
Prilep area of
Macedonia in 1941, in order to organize Chetnik detachments. Since 1941, he was the commander of the Poreče Chetnik Detachment, active in the Bitola, Prilep and Veles ''
srezi''. He was the commander of the Prilep Brigade and second commander of the Veles Brigade, of the 2nd Vardar Corpus (Poreče Corps,
formed in late 1943). On 19 June 1944, the Prilep Brigade was united with the Veles Brigade, while Trbić became the assistant to the commander of the Vardar Military Oblast. He was killed in action in 1945 while fighting on the
Babuna mountain.
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People from Prilep
Chetnik personnel of World War II
20th-century Serbian people
Serbs of North Macedonia