The lantern was used in the railway service by Milivoje Krpić, a brakeman at the railway station in Kraljevo, who was one of the railway workers shot in the mass German revenge carried out from October 15th to October 20th, 1941 in Kraljevo. Milivoje was born in 1903 in Donji Vratari near Aleksandrovac, and his lantern was donated to the National Museum in Kraljevo by his son Nikola.