Career
Mešić was married without children, and considered himself to be a Croat. He wrote and published a work titled "Moj odgovor bezimenim klevetnicima". At the beginning of World War I he was military commander in the Schutzkorps, an auxiliary volunteer militia established in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Austro-Hungarian authorities.
The unit he organized and commanded was also known as "Ademaga"s Army" (Croatian: Ademagina vojska).
After the war Mešić was a poultry trader in Tešanj. At the end of the war he escaped to Austria, only to be imprisoned by British forces, who extradited him to the new Yugoslav communist government.
After the war he was tried. In his closing statement he said that he was only a loyal citizen of the Ottoman sultan, Austrian emperor and Yugoslav king Karađorđević in turn, emphasizing his willingness to continue his loyal service, now to the new communist government.
Mešić was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 1945.
