Darinka Mirković Borović

Darinka Mirković Borović was a Montenegrin nurse of the First World War, born in Pljevlja in 1896. After her husband, a young lieutenant of the Serbian army, was killed in military service in September 1914, she trained as a nurse in order to help the wounded. She worked in the Valjevo Hospital in Serbia and on the battlefields, survived the crossing to Albania, and in 1917 reached Marseille, where wounded and sick Serbian soldiers were evacuated. She was later awarded the Albanian Commemorative Medal. After marrying, in 1920, a pharmacist from Šibenik who had worked in Allied medical treatment, she lived in Belgrade, where she opened a workshop making trusses and belts for ailments such as hernias, took part in humanitarian societies and the Circle of Serbian Sisters, and helped organize charity events that raised funds for hospitals, schools and orphanages. She died in Belgrade in 1979.