Jozo Radanović ( Croatian Jozo Radanović ; October 19, 1965 , Dizmo - January 24, 2009 , ibid.) - Croatian military leader, commander of the 9th Croatian defensive forces battalion Rafael Knight Boban during the war in Croatia.
| Jozo Radanovich | |
|---|---|
| Horv. Jozo Radanović | |
 | |
| Date of Birth | October 19, 1965 |
| Place of Birth | Dizmo , SR Croatia , SFRY |
| Date of death | January 24, 2009 (43 years old) |
| Place of death | Dizmo , Croatia |
| Affiliation |  Croatia |
| Type of army | infantry |
| Years of service | 1991-1995 |
| Rank |  lieutenant colonel (KhOS)  Major (Armed Forces of Croatia) |
| Part | Croatian defensive forces Croatian Armed Forces |
| Commanded |  9th battalion "Rafael Boban" |
| Battles / wars | The war in Croatia |
Short Biography
Born October 19, 1965 in Ditsmo (now Croatia). A native of Dalmatia.
Radanovich was the first commander of the 9th KhOS battalion, formed in 1991, and went through the whole war with him. He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the KhOS, in the Croatian army he rose to the rank of major. After the war, he headed the Croatian Corps of Officers in Split and was a member of the Presidium of the International Conference of Officers of the Adriatic. He was a member of the Austrian knightly order “Ritter von Delo”, whose branch was opened in Croatia after its independence, and was deputy grand master of the Croatian branch of the order Zhivko Iliyasha. The order was engaged in charity work.
At the end of his life, Radanovich, a member of the Croatian Law Party from the very beginning of the unrest in Yugoslavia, quarreled with the leadership, accusing him of illegally profiting from the names of dead soldiers during the war in Croatia [1] .
He died on January 24, 2009 in his native Ditsmo in a house on Antofagasta Street from a heart attack [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Splitski HSP vode mešetari (Croatian)
- ↑ Preminuo ratni zapovjednik Jozo Radanović (inaccessible link) (Croatian)