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During the First World War, she worked in the intelligence and communication section of the First Brigade of the Polish Legions, and soon she became involved with the Polish Military Organisation (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa). As a result of these activities, she was arrested in 1915 by the Germans in Warsaw, and again imprisoned in Pawiak in ...
Andrzej Juliusz Małkowski (31 October 1888, Trębki - 15 January 1919, Strait of Messina) was a Polish Scoutmaster activist of youth and independence organisations. He and his wife, Olga, are widely regarded as the founders of Scouting in Poland. To honor his name, his troop wrote a song about him called Na Polanie.
In the period from July 9, 1908, to July 31, 1914, he was one of the organizers and a member of the Supreme Council of the Bartosz Troops. On August 10, 1914, he joined the Eastern Legion, and after its dissolution, the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Polish Legions. On October 29, 1914, he was wounded during the Battle of Mołotków.
The Polish Legions (Polish: Legiony Polskie) was a name of the Polish military force (the first active Polish army in generations) [1] established in August 1914 in Galicia soon after World War I erupted between the opposing alliances of the Triple Entente on one side (comprising the British Empire, the French Republic and the Russian Empire) and the Central Powers on the other side ...
Danube Legion; Legion of the Vistula; Polish Legion in Portugal, created in 1828 during Liberal Wars; Polish Legion in Hungary, created in 1848 during Hungarian Revolution of 1848; Mickiewicz's Legion, formed by Adam Mickiewicz in Rome in 1848; Polish Legion in Turkey, formed under Józef Jagmin in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Legion of Honour Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa , Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells ) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition , and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions .
On 25 August 1923, Stefan Kubiak was born into a poor family of weavers in the Widzew district of Łódź, in the Second Polish Republic.As a child, he enjoyed reading adventure and historical books, as well as watching films, which distracted him from the poverty of his childhood and caused him to develop an interest in exotic lands.
Adam Franciszek Mikołaj Dulęba (6 December 1895 – end of March 1944 in the Gross-Rosen concentration camp) was a Polish photographer, officer of the Polish Legions, soldier of Armia Krajowa; known under the pseudonym Góral. Adam Dulęba was the photographer and chronicler of the Polish Legions.