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Tadusz Komorowski

ID: OS-000141-P/105110

Tadusz Komorowski

First name:

Tadusz

Last Name:

Komorowski

Pseudonym:

„Bór”, „Znicz”, „Lawina”, „Korczak”, „Gajowy”, „Prawdzic”

Parents:

Mieczysław Komorowski (1860–1926), Wanda Prawdzic-Zaleska

Date of birth:

01-06-1895

Date of death:

24-08-1966

Age:

71

Profession:

military / soldier, general
participant in the Warsaw Uprising

Grade:

gen. dyw.

Honours and awards:

Krzyż Walecznych, Srebrny Krzyże Orderu Virtuti Militari V klasy, Srebrny Krzyż Zasługi, Złoty Krzyż Zasługi, Krzyż Oficerski Polonia Restituta, Złoty Krzyże Orderu Virtuti Militari IV klasy i pośmiertnie Krzyżem Komandorskim Orderu Virtuti Militari II klasy oraz Orderem Orła Białego

Biography:

Tadeusz Komorowski (1895-1966) was a Polish general and military commander, born on 1 June 1895 in Lviv. He graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt. He took part in the First World War, and in 1918 joined the Polish army and fought in the Polish-Soviet War in 1920.

During his twenties in active service. He also graduated from the Lwów Polytechnic. He was an active sportsman, e.g. in Paris (1924), participating in the Olympic Games in equestrianism, in Berlin (1936) he was the manager of the equestrian team that won the silver medal at the Olympic Games.

In 1939 he took part in the September campaign with the rank of colonel. At the end of 1939, he began to organise the underground Military Organisation in Kraków. In 1940, he was appointed Brigadier-General. He took part in the merger of the National Military Organisation with the Home Army. In 1943, he was appointed commander of the Home Army, and in 1944 major general. During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, Bór-Komorowski was commander-in-chief of the Polish underground forces. Before the fall of the uprising, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces.

After the fall of the uprising, Komorowski was sent to a prisoner of war camp. After the war, Bór-Komorowski lived in exile in the United Kingdom, where he was active in the Polish government-in-exile while earning a living as an upholsterer. He died on 24 August 1966 in Woughton-on-the-Green.

Publikacja:

24.03.2023
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