Military hospital
A hospital and an ambulance of Crkvice military camp were located at this place. As can be seen in the photo³, they were stationed in the barracks complex. 
DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE IN BOKA
One of dark statistics from the history of warfare is that every war, including the First World War, had more soldiers killed by infectious diseases or wounds than were killed on the battlefields. The Austro-Hungarian army, raising the level of medical care in Boka, formed hospitals in which highly experienced military doctors and surgeons worked.
  • Meljine, radiology department¹
  • Ambulance in Kotor¹
  • Histopathology department in Meljine¹
  • Operating room in the hospital in Baošići¹
DR. MATTYASOVSZKY 
Dr. Bela Mattyasovszky (marked in the photo of the hospital in Crkvice) lived in one of the barracks.  As a medical graduate, he was mobilized in 1914 and sent to Boka. He treated sick and wounded soldiers in Crkvice. He rested from hard work and the reality of war by playing the violin and photographing soldiers, fortifications, locals and nature. His album from Montenegro has 700 photos and represents a valuable testimony of that time. After the war, Dr. Bela returned to his native Bajmok, where he treated his fellow citizens for the rest of his life.  

Dr. Bela Mattyasovszky³
SPANISH FLU
During those difficult war years, at the beginning of 1917, a viral disease called Spanish flu appeared. The chief doctor at the hospital in Crkvice, dr. Fulvio Zatelli treated, among others, a group of compatriots, Italian prisoners, from this disease. No matter how hard he tried to save them, 200 of them did not survive. They were buried in the military cemetery, located a ten-minute walk from here.
  • Italian prisoners³
  • Hospital room in the hospital in Baošići¹
RESCUING SOLDIER VELJKO
One of the soldiers treated in the hospital in Crkvice was Veljko Vučurović, a native of Zvečava, a village located few kilometers from here. He was recruited in 1915 and sent to Tyrol to the battlefield. He showed exceptional courage and was honored as such. A large silver medal was handed to him personally by the young emperor Karlo. While traveling from Italy on a rewarding vacation, he fell asleep in the snow. The first morning at home in Zvečava, he woke up with an extremely high temperature and pneumonia. The soldiers brought him immediately to Crkvice, where doctors fought for his life for the following three days. They managed to rescue him, to the great joy of his family.


Veljko Vučurović in Crkvice, at the place where his father Vido, during the Second Krivošije Uprising disarmed the crew of the gendarmerie station (autumn 1881)²
The stories are a reconstruction of time with real characters, based on old photographs and historical sources.
¹ Source: Radojica Pavićević
² Source: Volker Pachauer
³ Source: Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
4 Source: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Festungsforschung

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