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Polish 3rd Rifle Division (3 Dywizja Strzelców Polskich / 3éme Division Polonaise) Polish 4th Polish Rifle Division (4. Dywizja Strzelców Polskich)Later part of Haller's Blue army as 4th Division-renamed 10th Infantry Division (Poland) Col. Franciszek Zieliński Polish 5th Polish Rifle Division (5. Dywizja Strzelców Polskich)Later part of ...
Major Jerzy Dąbrowski: Finally on 18 April 1919 the regiment's first transport set out for Poland. On 23 April 1919 the leading divisions of the 3rd Regiment of Polish Riflemen set foot on Polish soil, now free thanks to their own efforts. [13] Lt. Wincenty Skarzyński: Weeks passed. April 1919 arrived – then plans were changed: it was ...
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 ...
Polish Legions in World War I (2 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Military units and formations of Poland in World War I" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
As one of the most experienced and best equipped Polish divisions, it fought in many of the most notable battles of the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919 and 1920. Among them was the operation of liberation of Wilno and Battle of Dyneburg in Daugavpils, Latvia (as part of Rydz-Śmigły's Third Army and under his personal command, although the actual commanding officer was Michał Karaszewicz ...
Puławy Legion was a Polish military formation of World War I, as part of the Imperial Russian Army. [1] It was created in late 1914 from volunteers gathered together due to several initiatives, most notably of which was that of the pro-Russian Polish National Committee [1] The initiative was supposed to counteract the Polish Legions of Józef Piłsudski forming under the Austro–Hungarian Army.
List of Polish divisions in World War I; R. Imperial Russian Army formations and units (1914) List of Russian armies in World War I; U. List of U-boat flotillas;
The 1st Cavalry Division was heavily reorganised in 1924, as were the other Polish cavalry divisions. The previously separate mounted rifle regiments were integrated with the four cavalry divisions. The division was disbanded, along with the 3rd and 4th Cavalry Division, in 1929 and 1930 upon the orders of Pilsudski , who had come to the ...