Milunka Savic

“Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has stated that the national WWI hero Milunka Savic resembles her country – bold and invincible when needed, ready to help everybody, and yet pushed aside when others think she could be an obstacle, strong like that. At the ceremony of laying to rest the mortal remains of Milunka Savic in the Alley of the Greats, at the New Cemetery in Belgrade, Nikolic has pointed he believes it is never too late to make right the wrongs others had made on Serbia and her greats. The President added he believed Serbia would preserve the memory of a woman who was the biggest hero of WWI, among many brave men. He has reminded that Milunka Savic was the bearer of highest national and foreign war decorations, including two Medals of the Knight of the Legion of Honor, and she was the only woman in history to have received the French decoration War Cross with golden palm.”

http://voiceofserbia.org/content/nikolic-milunka-savic-%E2%80%93-hero-resembles-her-country

‘Remains of Serbian heroine Milunka Savic transported to the Alley of deserving citizens in Belgrade’

http://inserbia.info/news/2013/11/remains-of-serbian-heroine-milunka-savic-transported-to-the-alley-of-deserving-citizens-in-belgrade/

She fought in the Second Balkan War and in the early days of World War I received her first Karadorde Star with Swords following the battle of Kolubura. She received a second Star with Swords in 1916 when she captured 23 Bulgarian soldiers. Savic also was twice awarded the French Legion of Honor, the Russian Cross of St. George, the British medal of the Most Distinguished order of St. Michael, the Serbian Milos Obilic medal and the French Croix de Guerrer with gold palm.