POLISH PARA Sosabowski, Stanislaw Franciszek

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Sosabowski ​

• FORENAME

Stanislaw Franciszek ​

• UNIT

Commanding Officer ​

• RANK

General Brygady (Major General) ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Commander of the Order of the British Empire,Krzyz Walecznych ​

• PLACE

Arnhem 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 8.5.1892 Stanislawow,Galicia,Poland​

attended University of Krakow​

Austo-Hungarian Army 1913​

58 Infantry Regiment (Cpl + 1st Lt 1915)​

WIA 1915​

Polish Army November 1918​

Ministry of War Affairs (Staff Officer)​

Major 1922​

Higher Military School,Warszawa​

General Staff​

Lt Colonel 1928​

75 Infantry Regiment (bn C.O.)​

3 Podhale Rifles Regiment (Deputy C.O.) 1929​

Colonel 1937​

9 Polish Legions Infantry Regiment (C.O.)​

21 Infantry Regiment (C.O.) January 1939​

awarded Virtuti Militari 29.9.1939​

POW but escaped and joined Resistance​

to France​

4 Polish Infantry Division (Commander of Infantry)​

evacuated to UK 19.6.1940​

C.O. 4 Rifles Brigade​

C.O. 1 Independent Parachute Brigade (titled October 1942)​

removed from brigade command 27.12.1944​

demobilised July 1948​

awarded Bronze Lion (Holland)(posthumous) 2006​

died 25.9.1967 Hillingdon,London,England​

Powazki Cemetery,Warszawa,Poland ​

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