POSTA SRPSKE (Republika Srpske Bosnia-Herzegovina) in 2014 issued a series of first day cover stamps marking the centenary of WWI. Shown are the first day covers, each with historic information of the reverse side of the envelope as it pertains to the stamps, and a souvenir sheet of the stamps.
The First World War officially began on 28th July 1914, a month after the Sarajevo assassination, in which Gavrilo Princip killed the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Franjo Ferdinand. The Serbian people, though exhausted by warfare from two Balkan wars, bravely fought in this war too. The price of victory over the enemy was terrible, compared to the number of inhabitants. Serbia had the largest number of victims among all participating countries in the First World War.
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