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Rozstrzelani w Twerze; alfabetyczny spis 6314 jeńców polskich z
Ostaszkowa rozstrzelanych w kwietniu-maju 1940 i pogrzebanych w Miednoje, według źródeł sowieckich i polskich
270:. On September 30 his unit was dispatched to the front. He served with distinction in the II Brigade of the Legions, and held the posts of platoon, company and battalion
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resistance organization and became one of its leaders in Kalisz. Denunciated, in 1911 he was arrested and sentenced to 6 months in prison in
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Mieczysław Makary Smorawiński was born December 25, 1893, in
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organization, in which he received basic military training.
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1943 in Katyn at the graves of Mieczysław Smorawiński and
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of 1926, Smorawiński led a small troop of his men from
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905:Polish military personnel killed in World War II
242:exam and joined the Faculty of Chemistry of the
930:Executed people from Greater Poland Voivodeship
428:who arrested all of the officers and took them
217:trade school. Early in his youth he joined the
900:Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
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344:and was promoted to colonel. During the
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751:Maria Skrzyńska-Pławińska, ed. (1995).
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394:Polish 3rd Legions Infantry Division
311:Polish 2nd Legions Infantry Division
16:Polish brigadier general (1893–1940)
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675:. Warsaw, Alfa. p. 366.
390:Polish 39th Infantry Division
188:Mieczysław Makary Smorawiński
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715:. Warsaw, Pax. p. 987.
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198:as the victim of the Soviet
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400:(modern Kovil) and then to
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254:Fight for independence
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537:Silver Cross of the
533:Military Merit Medal
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307:Polish-Bolshevik War
300:Polish-Ukrainian War
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509:Franciszek Sikorski
497:Konstanty Plisowski
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258:At the outbreak of
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260:World War I
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104:1914 - 1940
834:Categories
693:. Warsaw,
661:Page 208.
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