page_title: Borko Paštrović
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Borko Paštrović / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Cheta of Borko Paštrović
context_page_description: Borko Paštrović was a Serbian Chetnik commander and later a major of artillery in the Serbian Army during the First Balkan War.
context_section_description: Paštrović was born in Kragujevac, Principality of Serbia (now Serbia) on April 12, 1875. After finishing six years of gymnasium in Kruševac, he attended the Military Academy in Belgrade. On April 16, 1905, as a lieutenant in the Kragujevac Chetnik armed band (Serbian Latin: četa) he participated in the Battle of Čelopek against forces of the Ottoman Army, alongside commanders Doksim Mihailović, Savatije Milošević, Lazar Kujundžić, Vojislav Tankosić, Aksentije Bacetović and Pavle Mladenović. He also participated in the First Balkan War, during which he commanded an artillery detachment of the Serbian Army. In Lješ, on the Adriatic, they clashed with Essad Pasha who tried to withdraw from Scutari after a long siege. Paštrović was killed in the fighting on December 18, 1912.
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