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Soon after the photography was presented at the photo exhibition in New York City in 1916, and was later printed as a postcard when it became world-famous, symbolizing the Serbian struggle in the First World War.
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The photography depicted Matić with mustache and with full military gear during his mission. Matić, not knowing, became famous because of the photograph during the battle of Drina that was taken by Russian photographer and painter Sampson Tchernoff. ? Oko sokolovo (Hawkeye) postcard that eventually made Dragutin Matić famous. At one point Matić was wounded near the village of Gruništa in southern North Macedonia. Mitić also withdrew through Albania and was transferred on the Salonica Front where he took part in its breakthrough and liberation of Serbia. The duty of a scout, he once told us, was entrusted to him as one of the bravest soldiers in the Battle of Cer and Kolubara. His son Blagoje Mitić, journalist of Politika, later wrote: Furthermore, he participated at the Kolubara. Milenković begged him to leave him, but Matić saved him, and Milenković was later treated in the hospital in Niš. During the Battle of Cer, he carried his wounded friend Ljubo Milenković a few kilometers from the mountain. In the First World War, he mostly performed Reconnaissance tasks. He also took part in the First World War, in all important battles.
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He took part in both Balkan Wars and showed great courage in them. When the First Balkan War broke out, he was still serving his military service, and he volunteered to take part in the war. He often came in contact with Prince Đorđe Karađorđević which he thought of to be silly brave. He was recruited as a cavalryman, and later transferred to the infantry. He went to Belgrade in 1910 to serve his military service and was in the barracks somewhere towards Senjak. He married Kruna Ranđelović from the village of Sopotnica, with whom he had four children by 1910 – first a daughter Kristina, then a son Ranđel and two more daughters. And he often worked as a seasonal worker (pečalba) in construction. Matić never attended any formal education, but he educated himself during his 9-year long military service. Thus, in his native village he was known as Dragutin Đorin (Đora's Dragutin). His mother and father died when he was very young and his oldest brother Đorđe, nicknamed Đora, raised him and several other siblings. His father Peša and his grandfather Mata raised horses and from early age Matić learned the art of horse riding which later proved to be a decisive factor in recruiting into the cavalry.
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Early life and youth (1888–1910)ĭragutin Matić was born on 10 January 1888 in the village of Kaletinac on the slopes of Suva Planina. He died on 1 January 1970 in his native village. He is known for his photograph that has traveled the world. He took part in all the battles of the Serbian army from 1910 until the end of World War I. Dragutin Matić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Матић 10 January 1888 – 1 January 1970), known as Hawkeye (Oko sokolovo), is the most famous Serbian military scout.