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Description: | Three of the Serbian conspirators of the Balkan Slav societies, the Black Hand and Young Bosnia, who were involved in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the event which triggered the outbreak of the First World War. Left to right: Ciganovitch, Nedeljko Cabrinovitch and Gavril Princip photographed sitting on a garden bench. Cabrinovitch made a first, unsuccessful, attempt to assassinate the Archduke by throwing a bomb at his car on the morning of 28 June 1914. A second attempt succeeded when Princip shot the Archduke and his wife. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Austro-Hungarian Official Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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