Of the other forms, there were memorials in the form of pavilions that stood separately or contained a sculpture of a Home Guardsman within the frame of the pavilion, usually made of wood. [...] Memorials to Austro-Hungarian soldiers who fell in World War I were erected: at St James' cemetery in Ogulin (1915), in the city square in front of the Franciscan church in Varaždin (1915), in the city cemetery of the Holy Spirit in Koprivnica (1916), in the military camp Ivanovčani near Bjelovar (1916), within the military convalescent home in Osijek (1916), on the pro- menade in Novi Vinodolski. [...] In addition, Croatia celebrated the millenary of the crowning of King To- mislav and the founding of the Croatian kingdom in 1925, so most efforts to raise memorials in Croatia and Bosnia and Her- 220 zegovina were instead focused on the millenary jubilee (Jareb, DRU[. [...] In addition to this, the difficulties regarding the raising of larger memorials and plaques were complicated by the provi- sion that no memorial or memorial plaque could be raised anywhere in the country without the approval of the arts sec- tion of the Ministry of Education in Belgrade. [...] In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the most significant effort to commemorate the soldiers fallen in World War I was linked to the raising of the Memorial to the Unknown Hero on Avala hill and another memorial in Mirogoj, Zagreb's main ceme- tery.
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