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on 7 October. Kirhner was seriously wounded in the same foot, and was saved by his comrades who took him away from the first line of defense. The command of the detachment was taken over by Živko J. Kezić. The detachment was ordered to retreat to the heights south of
Belgrade, which was the beginning
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After the war, he held high offices in the
Military-Technical and Engineering Department of the Army and Navy. He married Bosiljka, his war-time love. In the Yugoslav Army, Ignjat Kirhner had the rank of an engineering technical lieutenant, then rose to the rank of brigadier-general (1939). For a
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Chetnik volunteer. In 1914 he participated in the capture of an Austro-Hungarian military post on the left shore of the Sava, during which he was wounded in the right foot, but declined to go to hospital. He gathered youngsters from
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Belgrade in fall 1915, Kirhner commanded the Srem Volunteer Detachment. In late September, when the state in Belgrade was critical, he led his unit which defended the railway embankment from the "Zlatni šaran"
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in the summer of 1914, and was the first to bring news that the Austro-Hungarian government was ready to declare war regardless of the response to the
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