Dr Đorđe Mihailović (1892-1974) was born in the 19th century, but lived in the 20th century. He completed primary school and high school in his native Niš, and enrolled in Medical School in Vienna. At the start of the First Balkan War, he interrupted his medical studies and volunteered to the Serbian Army, where he was posted to the regular Morava Military Hospital in Niš. He worked in the same hospital during the First World War as a medical assistant, under the leadership of Dr Vladimir Stanojević. He followed the Hospital in the Great Retreat through Albania, and landed in Corfu. Thereafter, Đorđe Mihailović was ordered by the Serbian Medical Corps to accompany the Serbian soldiers to Tunisia for rehabilitation. There, the Serbian doctors and medical assistants worked in the French run hospitals for the Serbian soldiers. Đorđe Mihailović spent almost three years in Tunisia. After the War he returned to Vienna where he completed his medical studies, and specialized in pediatrics and anesthesiology. He returned to Niš and worked as a fully qualified physician in Moravska Banovina, 'Sokolsko društvo Niš', and in Blace after the Second World War. He was awarded several medals and orders. The city of Niš and the whole region remembers Dr Đorđe Mihailović as a popular physician and a great philanthropist.