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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 ...
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 ...
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) 58th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment , a.k.a. the Polish Legion, commanded in the U.S. Civil War by Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski
In exile in France, then in Great Britain, from August 1951 he lived in the Polish Settlement in Penrhos (Wales). [8] He died on July 17, 1956, in Bangor, Wales. His wife was Aleksandra Pasławska, née Judycka (d. 1944), [9] [10] who was the chairwoman of the District of the Polish Scouting Association in Stanisławów. [11]
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 .
By 1805, during the War of the Third Coalition, the Polish troops in Italy had been renamed the 1st Polish Legion (1e Legion Polonaise) and attached to the Kingdom of Italy. [26] In 1806, all that was left of the old Dąbrowski and Kniaziewicz's Legions was one demi-brigade, consisting of one infantry regiment and one cavalry regiment, now in ...
Major Wanda Gertz (13 April 1896 – 10 November 1958) was a Polish woman of noble birth, who began her military career in the Polish Legion during World War I, dressed as a man, under the pseudonym of "Kazimierz 'Kazik' Żuchowicz".
The First Cadre Company (Polish: Pierwsza Kompania Kadrowa) was a Polish military formation created in the Austro-Hungarian Army at the outbreak of World War I. The company was founded by Józef Piłsudski on 3 August 1914 in Kraków. It was the predecessor of the Polish Legions, and formed the core of the Polish Legions' First Brigade during ...