Emil Karol Przedrzymirski de Krukowicz (1886 -1957); geenral of the Polish Army Division.He studied at the Military Technical Academy in Mödling. During the First World War he was wounded in the fighting near Busk near Lvov. From 1915 to 1916 he was a lecturer and then commander of a training company at the Artillery Cadet School in Traiskirchen near Vienna. On 10 November 1918, he volunteered for service in the Polish Army. During the Polish-Russian War in 1920, he took command of the 16th Field Artillery Regiment being formed in Grudziądz. He later commanded the regiment on the North-Eastern Front. He was awarded the Silver Cross of the Military Order of Virtuti Militari for his battles for Horodec in Polesia, and in 1935 the city granted him honorary citizenship. During the German invasion of 1939, the "Modlin" Army under his command fought a three-day battle at Mława (1-3 September 1939), facing the German 3rd Army of General Georg von Küchler. From the rest of the units of the "Modlin" Army and the "Wyszków" Operational Group, the so-called General Przedrzymirski Army was formed, which tried to break through to Romania. The Polish troops were encircled by the overwhelming enemy forces, and the capitulation was signed on 26 September 1939 in a forest near Góreck Kościelny. Przedrzymirski was taken into German captivity. After being liberated by the Americans, he went to Nice, where he acted as a representative of the 18 brigadier generals residing there to the Polish military authorities in London. In 1949, he and his wife moved to Canada, where his daughter Małgorzata had previously settled with her husband Eng. Tadeusz Świderski. After a year's stay in Montreal, he settled in Toronto. On 23 August 2006, the Minister of National Defence named the 16th Pomeranian Artillery Regiment in Braniewo after him. He died suddenly of a heart attack in Toronto and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery.