Jerzy Dąbrowski, Dąmbrowski, Dombrowski
[known in the litherature as Jerzy Dąmbrowski or Jerzy Dombrowski. His family used the second name Dąmbrowski. In military sources he is known as Jerzy III Dąbrowski to differentiate him from other Polish army officers with the same name.] Junosza coat of arms, ''
nom de guerre
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'' ''"Łupaszka"'' (born 29 April 1889 in
Suwałki
Suwałki (; ; or סוּוואַלק) is a city in northeastern Poland with a population of 69,206 (2021). It is the capital of Suwałki County and one of the most important centers of commerce in the Podlaskie Voivodeship.
A relatively young ci ...
, executed under
Soviet jurisdiction on the night of the 16th to 17 December 1940, after extensive torture at a prison in
Mińsk) – cavalry officer with the rank of ''
podpułkownik
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In different languages the exact name of this rank maintains a varie ...
'' (
Lieutenant Colonel) in the
Polish Army
The Land Forces () are the Army, land forces of the Polish Armed Forces. They currently contain some 110,000 active personnel and form many components of the European Union and NATO deployments around the world. Poland's recorded military histor ...
of the
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I ...
,
guerilla fighter.
Of notable men who served under Lt. Col. Jerzy Dąmbrowski were Capt.
Witold Pilecki
Witold Pilecki (; 13 May 190125 May 1948), known by the codenames ''Roman Jezierski'', ''Tomasz Serafiński'', ''Druh'' and ''Witold'', was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
As a youth, Pilecki ...
(at the time of the
Polish-Soviet war, 1918–1921) and Maj.
Henryk Dobrzański
Major Henryk Dobrzański (22 June 1897 – 30 April 1940), also known by his nom-de-guerre "Hubal," was a Polish soldier, sportsman and partisan. He fought in the Polish Legions in World War I, Polish–Ukrainian War of 1918, the Polish� ...
"Hubal" (during the
Polish Defensive war, 1939).
Decorations
*Silver Cross of the
Order Virtuti Militari (1922)
*
Cross of Valour, four times
*Golden
Cross of Merit
*
Military Cross of Merit of Central Lithuania
See also
*
Polish contribution to World War II
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*
Polish Secret State
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References
1889 births
1940 deaths
People from Suwałki
People from Suwałki Governorate
Polish nobility
Clan of Junosza
Polish Army officers
Polish military personnel in the Imperial Russian Army of World War I
Polish I Corps in Russia personnel
Polish people of the Polish–Soviet War
Republic of Central Lithuania
Polish military personnel killed in World War II
Polish resistance members of World War II
Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
Recipients of the Cross of Merit (Poland)
Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland)
Polish people executed by the Soviet Union
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