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