BOJANJA VAS-Memorial Plaque Ivan Radoš

Ivan Radoš was a Spanish fighter, born in Radoši, but after the war he lived in the village of Bojanja.

Vodnik, 19.

photograph 1: source:

https://www.kamra.si/album-slovenije/item/spanski-borec-ivan-rados-bojanja-vas.html

Spanish fighter and partisan Ivan Radoš-Djuro

He was born in 1900 in Radoši near Radovica. As an Austro-Hungarian soldier, he experienced the uprising of the Slovenian military in Judenburg in May 1918. At the capitulation of Austro-Hungary, he was on the Italian front, and then was mobilized into the Yugoslav army and participated in the battles for Carinthia until December 1919. In December 1920, he went to France, studied to become a surveyor, and in 1931 became a member of the Communist Party. In the autumn of 1936, he was among the first volunteers to rush to the aid of the Spanish Republic. After the dissolution of the international brigades, he came to a French camp, and after the German occupation of France, he was sent to work in Germany, from where he managed to return home via Zagreb at the beginning of January 1942.

Immediately, he joined the national liberation movement and in the middle of 1942 became a fighter in the Belokranjska Battalion. He also performed intelligence duties, and from 1944 until the end of the war, he was in the Croatian IV Corps.

He died in 1971. He was a bearer of the "Partisan Memorial 1941." The commemorative plaque on his house was unveiled by the social-political organization KS Radovice on August 7, 1982.

Source: ZB NOB Metlika archive (2)