Medal for Bravery (Yugoslavia)

For other medals for bravery, see Medals for bravery.

The Medal for Bravery (Serbo-Croatian: Медаља за храброст, Macedonian: Медал за храброст) was a Yugoslav military award created in 1943 for achievements in the line of duty during World War II. It was initially awarded by the newly created Democratic Federal Yugoslavia for acts of courage in the war, while it was still raging. Once the war ended, Yugoslavia was in a time of peace from 1945 to 1991, being a founding nation of the Non-Aligned Movement, and therefore eligibility for the award included acts of bravery within the nation, thus rendering the medal not obsolete, and it was awarded until the Breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992.

Medal for Bravery
Awarded for	Extreme bravery in the line of duty
Presented by	the  Yugoslavia
Eligibility	Soldiers of SFR Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Partisans of World War II.
Status	No longer awarded
Established	August 15, 1943[1]
First awarded	1943
Last awarded	early 1990s
Total	205,590
Ribbon of the Medal for Bravery

References

1. "Yugoslav WW2 Medals." Yugoslav WW2 Medals. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2015.