Upper Town, Zagradišnik Franc

France Zagradišnik. Sistory. date of birth: 14. 8. 1907, place of birth: Gornji Grad, military status: NOV and POS, military unit, rank: VIII. SNOB Frana Levstika, sanitary officer, date of death: 9. 11. 1944, place of death: SCVPB Ajdovec, place of burial: SCVPB Ajdovec, cause of death: Consequences of combat, perpetrator of death: German (occupational) units

ZAGRADIŠNIK Franc – Smoletov Son of a small farmer Anton, he was born on 14 August 1907 in Gornji Grad. He worked on the family farm and at the sawmill. He was married and the father of five children. He joined the partisans on 28 August 1944. He was a nurse in Levstik's brigade. While returning to the sanitary unit from the hospital Na dvoru after the transfer of the wounded, he was wounded. As a result of the injury, he died on 9 November 1944 in the partisan hospital Ajdovec in Kočevsko.

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Photo: Smoletov (Zagradišnik) Franc, Geneanet, Cemetery Gornji Grad, p. 27.