John Radmilovic

Lieutenant John Domenick Radmilovic was a Welsh officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 3 April 1882, in Cardiff, the son of Antonio, a Croat subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Hannah Radmilovic (née Webber), of Cardiff.Ancestry.co.ukJohn, Steven (2009), Carmarthen Pals: A History of the 15th (Service) Battalion, the Welsh Regiment, 1914-1919, p. 259. His Dubrovnik-born father had settled in Tiger Bay, and with his wife was the landlord of the Glastonbury Arms on Bute Street.Harris, Luke J. (2015), Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920: Perspectives on Participation and Identity Radmilovic's brother, Paul, was a competitive swimmer and water polo player who participated in five Olympics.
Before the war, Radmilovic worked as a licensed victualler for the Globe Hotel in Weston-Super-Mare. He enlisted on 30 September 1914, in the 12th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment. His battalion landed in France on 21 November 1915, and on the Western Front he rose to the rank of company serjeant-major. He was shot in the leg during the Battle of Guillemont on 3 September 1916. He married that year, to Marie Ivey (also known as Russell).
Radmilovic was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant on 26 April 1917, The London Gazette (30414), p. 12755. 5 December 1917,thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2016. in the 15th Welsh Regiment. Five months later, on 22 September, he was made an acting captain while in command of a company. Radmilovic was wounded in a raid on Aveluy Wood on 10 May 1918. He returned to Britain to recover, but succumbed to influenza at Redcar on 3 November 1918.
He is buried in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff.
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*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Radmilovic, J, cwgc.org. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
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