sentences:  Member of ICAN and the Council of Free Czechoslovakia.After finishing secondary school in Tábor he began studying at the Imperial-Royal Technical University (now ČVUT) in Prague.In 1914, during the 1st World War, he was sent to Eastern Front and 1915 Bervida was taken prisoner by Russians, and later as a private of the Czechoslovak Legion he took part in a march to the United States via Vladivostok.