Romuald Wolikowski (1891-1992), Brigadier-General of the Polish Armed Forces. After graduating from cadet school, he was admitted to military school in Moscow. During the First World War, he fought on the Western Front. In 1917, he joined the First Polish Corps in Russia, from which he was sent to the Imperial Nikolaev Military Academy, as a course student. A year later, after the corps was disbanded, he made his way to Ufa and on to Buguruslav and Novokuznetovsk, where, together with Valerian Czuma, he organised Polish military formations. He then served as Chief of Staff of the 5th Polish Rifle Division. From Russia, he went via Japan and Hawaii to the United States. In April 1919, together with Haller's Army, he returned to Poland. He was accepted into the Polish Army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel and appointed commander of the 17th Infantry Brigade. He went on to serve as Chief of Staff of the Polesie Group and the 5th Army. At the time, he was General Władysław Sikorski's closest associate. In the September campaign, he commanded stages of the "Poznań" Army. On 18 September 1939. He evacuated to Romania and then, with General Sikorski's consent, to France and England. In August 1941, following the conclusion of the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the USSR, he left for Moscow, where he took up the post of attaché and head of the Polish Military Mission. From September 1942, he was commandant of officer courses at the Polish Army Command in the East. From April 1944 to 1946, he remained at the disposal of the Minister of National Defence, and later of the Chief of the General Staff in London. Awarded, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari and the Cross of Valour four times. After demobilisation, he settled in Edmonton. He died in St Joseph's Hospital and was buried in the Catholic Cemetery in St Albert, Alberta.