Poet, writer, chronicler, teacher and priest Jože Žabkar – Alojzij was born in 1910 in Mikote near Raka, and died in 1983 in Ljubljana. From 1 November 1937 to 1 May 1938, he performed compulsory six-month military service in Serbia – in Kragujevac and Kruševac. In that time, he wrote various notes and poems describing military life and everyday life in Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he travelled while performing military service. Most of the time he describes the religious life and the everyday life of the common people. He mostly used a typewriter. He bound all his notes, poems, various documents, postcards and photographs in a volume he entitled Dnevi na jugu [Days in the South]. This article was created based on Žabkar's personal archive mentioned above, which was kindly made available to me by the prior of the Teutonic Order Janko Štampohar. The article sums up most of Žabkar's notes and a smaller selection of poems bound in the above-mentioned volume, which vividly illustrate how he experienced the military, religious and everyday events in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.