Spomenko Gostić
Spomenko Gostić (; 14 August 1978 – 20 March 1993) was a Bosnian Serb soldier during the Bosnian War. He was the youngest decorated soldier in the Army of Republika Srpska. Life Gostić was born on 14 August 1978 in Doboj, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia. He attended elementary school in Maglaj but due to the outbreak of war in Bosnia, he didn't graduate. At a very young age he was left without his father. In 1992 (the first year of the war), he lived with his mother Milena in the village of Jovići near Maglaj. The village was surrounded with smaller towns with a majority Bosniak population. Gostić thus found himself on the front-lines. In April 1992, his mother died so he went to live with his grandmother. His grandmother was killed in September 1992 during the bombing of the village by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH). As a soldier Shortly after this, Gostić joined the Army of Republika Srpska, where he started off as a military courier. After this he was transferred to the duty of delivering food to soldiers on the front-lines. While going about his duties upon horse, he fell