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Army Officers
1939-1945


 

 
F
Fabrycy,
Kazimierz
17.03.1888
Odessa
-
18.07.1958
London (UK)
Brig.Gen. (15.08.1924); Maj.Gen. (01.01.1939)
11.07.1939- GOC-in-C Carpathian Army
1939-1942 Cdr Independent Carpathian Riffle Brigade
1942-1945 with the Polish Army in the East
 

 


 
H
Hryneczko,
Wladyslaw
16.12.1908
Lwow
-
01.07.2003
Duns, Scotland
Maj.
09.1939 reserve officer in a cavalry regiment; captured, but escaped to London;
05.1940 fought with Polish 3rd Grenadier Division in France, was captured, but escaped again;
06.1944-05.1945 fought as a Major with the 1st Polish Armoured Division in NW Europe;
   
remained in post-war UK and set up a successful electrical business

 
K
Klein,
F
- Col.
1939 Cdr Carpathian National Defence Brigade
Kotowicz,
J
- Col.
1939 Cdr 3rd Mountain Brigade
Krzyzanowski,
Boleslaw M. 
- Col.
1939 GOC 24th Division
 
 
 
M  
Maczek,
Stanisław Władysław
© Photo: Stanislaw Maczek, "Od podwody do czolga"
see: Maczekmuseum
31.03.1892
Szczerzec near Lwów
-
11.12.1994
Edinburgh (Scotland, UK)
Col. (1938); Maj.Gen. (1942?); Gen. (1993)

Order of the White Eagle (Pol.) (1994)
Order Virtuti Militari 3rd, 4th & 5th class (Pol.)
Order Polonia Restituta 1st & 3rd class (Pol.)
Croix de Guerre (Pol.)
Croix d’or du Mérite avec glaive (Pol.)
Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur (Fr.)
Croix de Guerre avec palmes (Fr.)
Commander of the Order of the Bath (UK)
Distinguished Service Order (UK)
Orde van Oranje-Nassau (Neth.)
Grand Officier de l’Ordre de la Couronne avec palmes (Belg.)
Croix de Guerre avec palmes (Belg.)

10.1938-10.1939 Cdr 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade;
05-06.1940 Cdr 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade (France);
1940-02.1942 Cdr 10th Cavalry Brigade (UK);
02.1942-1945 GOC 1st Polish Armoured Division (NW Europe);
05.1945- GOC-in-C I Polish Corps (Scotland);
Published: Od powody do czołga (1961)

 
P
Polniaszek,
F
- Col.
1939 Cdr Lvov National Defence Brigade

 
 
S
Sosabowski,
Stanisław Franciszek
© Photo: Juliusz L. Englert & Krzysztof Barbarski, "General Stanislaw Sosabowski"
see: Sosabowski.com
08.05.1892
Stanisławow
-
25.09.1967
Hillingdon Hospital Middlesex
Col. (03.1939); Maj.Gen. (15.06.1944)

Independence Cross
Cross of Valour
Order of Polognia Restituta Class V
Golden Cross of Merit with Swords
Virtuti Militari Cross Class V
CBE (16.12.1943)
Officer's Medal of the Active Combatants Association
Academic Laurels from The Polish Academy of Science
Freeman of the Municipality of Heteren
The Commander's Cross with Star- posthumously
Order of Polonia Restituta

03.1939-10.1939 CO 21st Infantry Regiment "Warszawski" (Children of Warsaw);
01.1940-04.1940 deputy GOC 1st Infantry Division (France); 
04.1940-06.1940 deputy GOC 4th Rifle Division (France);
00.06.1940-04.10.1941 Cdr (Polish) Canadian Officers Cadre Brigade, 08.1940 renamed: 4th (Polish) Cadre Rifle Brigade (UK);
04.10.1941-27.12.1944 Cdr 1st Polish Parachute Brigade, England
27.12.1944-1947 Inspector of Salvage and Disposal of the Polish Ministry of Defence
1947 demobilized
Published: Najkrotsza droga (1956; = Freely I served (1960)); Droga wiodla ugorem (1967)
Stawarz,
Aleksander
- Col.
1939 Cdr 2nd Mountain Brigade
Szylling,
Antoni
© Photo: www.tc.ciechanow.pl
31.08.1884
-
17.06.1971
Brig.Gen.
1939 Cdr Cracovia Army
 

 
 
       

 
W
Wir-Konas,
Alojzy
1894
-
1940
Col.; Maj.Gen.
1939 Cdr 38th Reserve Infantry Division
1939-1940 Prisoner of War, Russia
1940 Executed by the NKVD

 
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