120 | April• 2018
PARTISAN PROMISE
that it is a symbol of the courageous
people who fought against tyranny,
a reminder of the debt owed to those
who gave their lives to protect our
freedoms. But no – to the delight of
all present, Ern broke into the Aus-
tralian Football League anthem, ‘Up
here Cazaly’.
Up there Cazaly
In there and ight
Out there and at ’em
Show ’em your mightLater he turned to me and said,
“What a wonderful day it is.” hen a
joyful expression spread across his
face and he let out an uproarious
laugh. The khaki partizanka cap that started
life in the hands of a young Croatian
resistance fighter and was gifted
in friendship to an Australian POW
escapee is now carefully preserved in
the Second World War Galleries of the
Australian War Memorial in Canberra.The military side cap
or forage cap, that
Boris Puks gave to
Ernest Brough in 194
was part of the
Yugoslav Partisan
uniform. It was calle
the triglavkain
Slovenian and the
partizankain Croatian.
The design was copied
from the cap worn by
Republican faction
soldiers during the
Spanish Civil War. A
feature of the Yugoslav
Partisan cap was the
red communist star
on the front.
The first Yugoslav
caps were made in
1941 in Zagreb for the
communist People'sp,44dnHistory of the PARTISAN CAP
Liberation Front of
Croatia. In occupied
Yugoslavia during
World War II, this
cap's use spread
quickly throughout
the Partisan
resistance. The
Slovenian triglavka,
adopted in 1942,
had a three-pronged
ridge along its crown,
representing Triglavmountain, Slovenia's
highest peak. Puks's
cap is a partizanka,
so it has a flatter
crown and a folded
brim at the back.
In 1943, the
partizanka and
the triglavka were
replaced by the
titovka, or Tito cap,
which was named
after the Yugoslav
communist resistance
leader, Josip Broz
Tito, and modelled
on the Soviet army
cap, the pilotka. After
the war, the titovka
became the ocial
headwear of the
Yugoslav People's
Army, or JNA.